Jerry is in love with Peggy. Her father objects to his courtship and favors a foreign gentleman, who hears the title of count. Peggy's birthday arrives, and the Count sends her a beautiful bouquet. Jerry is financially unable to send her a suitable present, but chances on an auction where unclaimed freight of an express company is being sold. He buys a trunk filled with silks and furs. From an absent-minded spectator he procures the necessary money to pay for his purchase, and hastens away to get an express man to deliver the package. While he is gone the trunks, of which there are several, are accidentally switched, and into an empty trunk a boozy individual falls and decides it is a good place for a nap. The wrong trunk is delivered to the girl's house. Jerry seeks safety in flight. At the corner he meets a motor cop, and seizing a motorcycle dashes away. Father summons the police. Eventually dashing down a hill Jerry sees before him a small shack marked "Powder House, Danger!" Unable to curb his speed he dashes through the walls. There is an explosion and Jerry volplanes through the air, eventually falling through the roof of the police station and landing on the sergeant's desk. They find that the individual in the trunk is not dead but merely intoxicated. The sergeant, in sampling the deadly carbolic acid, finds that it is merely Bourbon. Jerry makes love to the girl. Father discovers them in an embrace and vows vengeance as the picture fades.