- Father does not approve of Jerry's solicitous interest in his daughter and tries his mightiest to end their growing affection for one another. In order that they may be near each other Jerry suggests that his sweetheart play sick and he play the doctor attending her. They put the scheme into effect. An epidemic of smallpox breaks out in the neighborhood and father believes that his daughter has contracted it. Jerry attempts to disquiet his fears but to no avail. Father leaves the room and then Jerry and daughter have a laugh over the trick they played. The laughter is so boisterous that father becomes suspicious and decides to put Jerry to test. He gives his daughter a sleeping powder and then decorates her face with spots of red ink to imply she has smallpox. Jerry, who has left, is then recalled and finding the girl so marked and in a comatose state flees in fright. As he leaves the house he meets Dr. George, from whom he appropriated the garb of a doctor. Dr. George collars him and takes him back to the patient's home where he is imprisoned in a room. The master of the house tells Jerry that the place is quarantined. He protests violently against the enforced imprisonment but is subjected and forcibly chloroformed. His face is then decorated with smallpox spots and the conspirators leave the room, locking the door. Daughter's features are then washed of the ink spots. Jerry revives and after no little effort escapes. He is nabbed by the gardener, but that individual, noting the tell-tale spots, quickly releases him and flees. Jerry has the same experience with half a dozen other people, including several policemen, and surmises that everybody is afraid of him, that he is a real hero. The fright-stricken police hurry to the station and inform the sergeant of their experience. He rouses a squad and orders them to capture Jerry by throwing a lariat over him. There is an exciting chase, the lariat finally lands around Jerry's neck and he is led back toward the station. To make a short cut to town a stream is crossed and horse and Jerry are compelled to swim. Again on dry land they pass the home of a country doctor who inquires about the dangerous looking prisoner. The police tell him that Jerry has the smallpox. Doctor looks at Jerry's now clean face, all the paint having been washed off by the swim, and tells the officers that they are much mistaken. Officer looks at Jerry, agrees with the doctor, confesses his mistake, and to square himself tenders Jerry a roll of bills to buy his silence as well as to salve his hurts.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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