The Female Book Agent
Directed by Arthur HotalingBenjamin Bray hates book agents. When he gets into a business scrap with Judson Jenks, Jenks promises Gertie, the book agent, that he will give her one hundred dollars if she'll sell Bray a book. After that Bray cannot shake her. But Mrs. Bray is jealous in the extreme, and the crafty Bray has the office boy write an anonymous letter of warning, which Mrs. Bray takes seriously. When she arrives on the scene, Bray sallies forth and greets the waiting Gertie very pleasantly, and they stroll down the street. Mrs. Bray does the rest. Meantime, Bray beats it back to the office and gets into a row with Jenks. Everybody is arrested, but after explanations they are released. It looks as though Bray had the best of it, when, all of a sudden, Mrs. Bray recalls that Bray caused the letter to be sent. She "sails" into him and drags him home where he arrives a wreck.
