Odd Knotts (1913)

Skipper Knott leaves his wife and young daughter and goes on a cruise. Sometime later Mrs. Knott receives a letter from an attorney-at-law stating that her husband has been lost at sea and he will send her the small amount of insurance left. The settlement is made. The "Widow" Knott advertises in the local paper that she will take a few respectable gentlemen boarders. Mike McCloskey, a boarder at the "Widow" Knott is requested to leave unless he can pay his board bill immediately. He discovers an old bank book of his with a dollar deposited. He unhesitatingly writes $10,000 in the deposit column. He is about to leave when the "Widow" Knott discovers the bank book on the floor of McCloskey's room. She catches the schemer before he gets to the front door. His things are returned to his room and he is served with the best meal of his life and a bottle of imported wine. A week later the two announce their engagement. The day the wedding Is to take place Old Skipper Knott returns and makes things hot around the house.

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