Johnny Armstrong, a young college graduate, is in love with pretty Peggy Pettibone. Peggy also loves Johnny and the only obstacle in the way of a thoroughly happy union is Father, a crabbed... See full summary
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Johnny Armstrong, a young college graduate, is in love with pretty Peggy Pettibone. Peggy also loves Johnny and the only obstacle in the way of a thoroughly happy union is Father, a crabbed old gentleman who has no faith in his daughter's choice. Their attempts to meet and spoon are invariably frustrated by Pettibone, until both are thoroughly exasperated and plan to elope. On the night, as had been previously planned, Johnny climbs up a rather shaky ladder to assist his lady fair to the ground, but when he enters her room some commotion is made and old Hiram Pettibone, dosing in his easy chair in the library, awakens. Surmising that the noise has come from Peggy's chambers, he calls the butler and the two hurry upstairs to locate the trouble. Peggy has heard them coming and has thrust young Armstrong into the closet. She is unable to conceal the fact that she has prepared for a long journey and when her father enters she is unable to find any excuse for being dressed for traveling. A...
Released as a split reel along with the comedy Oh, So Sick! (1910).