A Good Catch (1912)
Frank and Beverly are sweethearts. Beverly, however, has a craving for taxis and similar luxuries, while Frank earns a "coffee and" salary. He is forced to refuse to hire Beverly a taxi one day, and she goes home in disgust. Seeing he cannot make her happy, Frank writes and breaks their engagement. A few days later he is overjoyed at receiving word that a kind benefactor has died and bequeathed him a legacy. In his zeal to reach the lawyer, Frank is arrested for a diamond thief and has an awful time before he is released. But he is bitterly disappointed to find the legacy is only a photo of the old man, his benefactor. Seeing an ad in the paper, Frank now sends the photo as a surprise package for the "fishing pond" of a church bazaar. Fate now takes a hand and Beverly hooks the photo that night and recognizes it as her deceased Uncle John Ross. Smothering her pride she goes to Frank, shows him the photo and he tells her how he came to get it. Suddenly Frank has an idea! Maybe Uncle John has left a fortune for Beverly in the care of the lawyer! To think is to act and they hasten to old lawyer Winner, explain matters, he looks up the records and discovers Beverly is indeed the lost heir of Ross' fortune. Consequently Beverly agrees to share the fortune with Frank for life, and they ride in taxis now, morning, noon and night.
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