- Vic Moore is employed by Walter Higgins, a broker. Vic and his wife revel in tangoing and Vic also has a passion for Welsh rarebits. One night after partaking of his favorite dish, he rises from bed, picks up the alarm clock, a cane and his wife's hat, and tangos out of the room to the fire escape. On the platform below he dislodges a milk bottle and the crash awakens his wife, who hastily puts on Vic's overcoat and cap and follows down the fire escape. Casey, a bicycle cop, is astounded at the sight of the pajama clad figure of Vic reposing on the guard of an automobile drawn up at the curb, and tries various methods to awaken him. Mrs. Vic appears and explains. When all other measures have failed, she sets the alarm and the familiar sound awakens him, and he returns to his apartment swearing to cut out the festive rarebit. The next morning he finds his employer, Walter Higgins, in a state of terror. Vera Thomas, a show girl, is going to bring suit against him for breach of promise unless he marries her. She has a big bundle of his love letters to prove her contention. He promises Vic to raise his salary $5,000 a year if he obtains those letters from Vera. Vic writes to Vera that he is a wealthy westerner who has seen her performance and would like to star her in musical comedy. Vera, who is in love with Delmont, the tenor of the company, is delighted. Vic meets Vera at the stage door and proposes that they talk the matter over at her apartment. Higgins follows and hides near the house. If Vic gets the letters he is to drop them out of the window. Mrs. Vic has been notified that he will not be at home until late and has covered his pajamas with a sign reading: "Victor Moore, sleepwalker. Return to Rex apartments, apartment 4-D." Vic is astounded to find that he lives in the same place and that his apartments are just above Vera's. Vera suggests that they have a Welsh rarebit, and Vic tries to sidestep it, but she insists. After eating he finds an excuse to send Vera from the room and locates Higgins' letters, but before he can get them, Vera reappears. He leaves and returns to his apartments, thinking Higgins has departed, but the latter is still hanging around below. Soon after Vic retires, the rarebit gets in its work, and he goes down the fire escape in his pajamas. He enters Vera's room, where she and her maid are in night robes. Vera does not recognize him and the two women watch him as he searches the cabinet. As he bends over to look into a drawer Vera and the maid see the card with his name. Mrs. Vic, who has awakened, comes down the fire escape in a kimona and motions the women to be cautious. Vic goes to the table and his hand touches a cigarette that Vera has placed there. The burn awakens Vic. Vera starts towards him. Mrs. Vic grabs her and tells her he is still asleep. Vic hears this speech and takes advantage of the opportunity to get the letters. Vera, alarmed, follows him to the window. He throws the letters to Higgins, who burns them in a vacant lot. Vic and his wife return to their apartments and Vera faints in the arms of her maid. Mrs. Vic lashes his hands and feet to the bed with his dressing gown cord and he accepts the situation as a penance for breaking his resolve not to eat Welsh rarebit.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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