His Nephew's Scheme
Directed by Charles M. SeayWhen John Alden quarreled with his sweetheart, the dashing Widow Smythe, that lady declared stoutly that she was done with him for good. In fulfillment of her declaration, she packed her things that very day and set off for the little village of Bloomford. Although the widow did not know it, John's uncle, Judge Thomas, lived in that same village of Bloomford. For twelve long years the judge had been engaged to Susan Dawns. Those who knew the judge's sterling temperament best declared that they wouldn't be a bit surprised if he married Susan in three or four years more. The arrival of the widow spelled disaster to their wisehead predictions. The Judge met her at the county fair and from the moment his eyes fell upon her, allowed Susan to drift gently from his capable and judicious mind. Susan promptly replied to her elderly lover's fickleness by suing him for breach of promise. The Judge, astonished at her mercenary disposition, communicated with John Alden, who, by the way, was a lawyer, and offered him five hundred dollars to extricate him from his unfortunate position. John came to Bloomford and spread a report abroad that Susan's rich uncle had left her fifty thousand dollars. The eligible male population immediately flocked to Susan's door and overwhelmed her with attention. Gratified at this unexpected popularity, the widow graciously consented to allow the breach of promise proceedings to drop. John unfortunately neglected to advise his uncle of the steps he had taken, and when the Judge heard of Susan's wealth, he instantly dropped the widow for his old flame. Susan, however, refused to have anything more to do with him, and eloped with a certain Hiram Jones. The Judge pursued them in an automobile, or rather, a thing which had been an automobile fifteen or twenty years before. Finally it blew up and the Judge staggered into the minister's to find that Susan had married Hiram Jones and his nephew had married the widow.
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