Hughey longs to be a sleuth, but is only a poor process server. However, he has a chance to try out his disguising abilities when he is told to serve a process on Binks, who is noted for his ability to elude service. Hughey has an awful ...See moreHughey longs to be a sleuth, but is only a poor process server. However, he has a chance to try out his disguising abilities when he is told to serve a process on Binks, who is noted for his ability to elude service. Hughey has an awful time, right from the start, for Kate, Binks's wife, packs him off to Punxsutawney, to escape the serving, and he leads Hughey a merry chase. Binks hires Spike, an ex-pug, as his personal bodyguard, and he proves an efficient watchdog when Hughey tries to serve papers on him and Flora, an old maid, becomes struck with his manly beauty and decides to marry him. Kate then takes a hand in proceedings, and Hughey succeeds in cleverly securing Flora's unconscious aid in serving his process upon Binks. As the old maid hands Binks the fatal papers she learns for the first time that he is married, and Hughey, listening outside, falls into the room with a crash at the news. Spike throws them both out, but Flora, now thoroughly enraged, trips him up and she and Hughey sit on their fallen enemy's chest and pledge their troth of life-long fidelity and love. Written by
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