- Jim Short, a little runt, loves Bess Belding. Dick Davenant also loves her. Dick has just been made the representative of a national detective agency because of his clever handling of a case assigned him. Short thinks it is the badge rather than the man, and works his political pull to get a local detective badge. He also lays in a few disguises of the sort Old King Brady used to wear. He trails a man he thinks to be a dangerous criminal, but the suspect turns out to be John Mason, a banker, and a policeman chases Short away. Later Dick sees Sam Jones, the banker's double, who is badly wanted for forgery, and trails him. Short supposes it to be the bank president still. Dick arrests the man, but through Short's interference Jones gets away. Bess trips him up with her parasol and they take him to the station house. Short follows to see what happens, where they discover that it is the bank president. But Dick was right and the entrance of Mason to complain of Short is the last straw. The chief decorates Short with all of his disguises and kicks him into the street. Short sits on the steps of the station house and figures it all out, but finds that as a detective he is a dead failure and that Bess is on to him.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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