Pearl has broken her engagement to Chester after a quarrel. The next day Chester receives a letter informing him that his late uncle's will, just found, provides that he receive a legacy of $25,000, conditioning, however, that he marry ...See morePearl has broken her engagement to Chester after a quarrel. The next day Chester receives a letter informing him that his late uncle's will, just found, provides that he receive a legacy of $25,000, conditioning, however, that he marry within a year from the date of his uncle's death. He learns that the year expires that very day, and immediately rushes to Pearl so as to induce her to marry him at once. Meanwhile, Second Story Hill, who has escaped from jail, enters the house of the minister who is to marry Pearl and Chester. Hill makes the minister change clothes with him and locks the reverend gentleman i» the clothes closet. Pearl and Chester enter and Hill, disguised as the minister, marries them. He gets some of Chester's money and then escapes. The minister, meanwhile, is making a terrible noise in the clothes closet and Chester lets him out. Explanations are in order and Pearl and Chester are more than dismayed when they find that they have not been legally married. However, with but one minute left before the expiration of the year allotted to him, Chester induces the minister to marry them, and all ends happily with Chester in possession of the legacy. Written by
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