The Doctor's Orders
Directed by James NeillThe district attorney and the doctor are good friends. Thus, when the doctor is arrested for speeding, it is the most natural thing in the world that he should go to his friend and attempt to beg off. He tells the district attorney that he was speeding to the aid of a sick man. The attorney refuses to take this for an excuse. Shortly afterward the district attorney has a nervous breakdown and the doctor informs him that he must take a month's vacation. The attorney, weighted down by his strenuous duties, refuses to take a rest and his wife hatches a scheme with the aid of the doctor, the police judge and the police and chauffeur as accomplices, whereby her husband will be compelled to take his vacation. The wife asks the attorney to take her for a drive. He consents. Just prior to entering the machine, the chauffeur is taken ill and the matter of driving the car falls on the district attorney. During the drive the wife affects a stroke of heart trouble and begs that she be hurried off to the doctor. The attorney smashes the speed limits. The motorcycle patrolmen, who are parties to the plot, arrest the speeders. He is taken before the judge and sentenced to thirty days in prison as an example to others. The following morning it is announced in the papers that the district attorney has gone on a month's vacation. The wife's object is attained, and she, with the other accomplices, goes to the jail to tell him of the joke.
