An impecunious old fellow pays his cooks wages long overdue with some worthless stock. The cook's beau, the coal man, finds out one day that this stock which the master has given the cook has taken an unexpected rise. At the very same time the master himself reads of this in the daily paper, and being in such terrible straits for money decides that there is nothing else for him to do but to marry the cook; which he does, but after the ceremony her faithful friend, the coal man, tells her why her master married her, so she leaves the latter, nut forgetting to take her fortune with her; which she finally thinks but right to bestow together with her hand upon the ever faithful coal man, leaving her desperate master to get out of his troubles as best he can.
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