Summary
Miriam Smith, a young woman, flees her devoutly religious family's insistence that she marry a man of their choice, Simeon Althoff, by answering a matrimonial ad and running away to New York. There, she meets Miles Sprague, the man from the ad, with the help of her friend Kittie Swasher, a hotel telephone operator. As Miriam gets cold feet, Kittie pretends to be her and goes to a cabaret with Miles, while Miriam's aunt and uncle's detectives arrive, mistakenly arrest Kittie, and later capture Miriam. However, Miles and Kittie rescue Miriam, and she realizes her love for Miles, the man from the ad.
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When Miriam Smith's devoutly religious aunt and uncle insist that she marry pious Simeon Althoff, she answers an ad in a matrimonial newspaper and runs away to New York to meet her correspondent. Upon learning that Miles Sprague, the man in the ad, is coming to claim her, Miriam gets cold feet and begs her experienced friend Kittie Swasher, the hotel telephone operator, for help. When Miles arrives, Kittie pretends that she is Miriam and the three go to a cabaret. Meanwhile, the detectives employed by Miriam's aunt and uncle to bring her home appear and arrest Kittie, thinking that she's Miriam. Simeon arrives soon after and identifies the real Miriam, who is then taken home and locked in her room. Kittie and Miles follow and rescue Miriam, who realizes that she has fallen in love with the man from her ad.
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