Max calling upon his sweetheart Dot finds another rival has won her heart. Max is furious and declares she shall never be the wife of another. Going to a drug store, he orders some poison. The clerk, surmising something wrong, sells him ...See moreMax calling upon his sweetheart Dot finds another rival has won her heart. Max is furious and declares she shall never be the wife of another. Going to a drug store, he orders some poison. The clerk, surmising something wrong, sells him powdered sugar. Max, after mixing the supposed poison with some candy, sends it to his former sweetheart. Dot, in the meantime, is thrown over by the new lover, who proves a flirt, falling in love with every girl he meets. Dot's love returns to Max, and she sends him a note. Realizing what he has done, Max starts on a mad dash to his sweetheart's home to prevent her from eating the candy. Dot has received the candy, and, after eating some, she exits into another room, where she is frightened by a rat and falls in faint. Max, arriving at Dot's home, finds the candy partly gone and frantically phones for the ambulance, which starts on a mad dash. Max enters the other room and is heartbroken at finding his sweetheart apparently dead. He thinks he is a murderer and decides to end it all by eating the remainder of the candy. This he does, and immediately imagines he is dying and is going to the infernal regions and is being greeted by his Satanic Majesty. Dot, upon reviving, appears in the doorway and Max, seeing her. thinks it is her spirit which has returned to haunt him. About this time the ambulance wagon has been mixed up with a construction gang and is blown up with dynamite. Back in the house, Dot has convinced Max that she is real flesh and blood, things are explained and both are very happy. Written by
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