James C. Morton credited as playing...
Policeman
- Policeman: [breaks up a fight between Stan, Ollie and Charlie] Just a minute. Don't you think this thing has gone far enough? Who started this anyway?
- Oliver: [he and Stan point to Charlie] He did.
- Grocer: I did not.
- Oliver: Why he did too. Why this little upstart, in the presence of my friend, slandered my character, for which I demanded an apology. He refused to give it, hence this petty little argument.
- Policeman: Slandered your character?
- Stanley: Yes, sir. He filtered his good name, didn't he?
- Policeman: Filtered his good name?
- Oliver: Why you know what he did? He accused me of a clandestine meeting with his wife.
- [Mae gasps]
- Oliver: For which I was wholly, and absolutely, innocent.
- Grocer: Then what were you doing coming downstairs with my wife?
- Grocer's Wife: Oh, what nonsense. There was nothing to it.
- Stanley: Nothing to it, Officer. He was waiting for a street car...
- Policeman: [to Charlie] Well it looks like you're to blame. You better apologize to this gentleman.
- Grocer: I will not.
- Policeman: Oh yes you will, or I'll run you in.
- Grocer: Well, alright. But don't let it happen again.
- Oliver: [They shake hands] No hard feelings.