All Is Fair in Love and War (1911)
Two maiden-lady sisters keep a private school and have their own problems teaching the young. Their orphan niece Mattie is full of mischief and comes under the especial notice and correction of Letitia, the younger schoolmarm, who has an evident grudge against her young niece. Mattie makes up her mind to get even with her horrid aunt for the chastisement she has suffered and communicates her intention to her young playmate and beau Johnny. They put their heads together and interest Mattie's cousin and his young wife in their plan; with their assistance they write two letters, one to Letitia in the name of a spruce old bachelor who is very much smitten with her, and another from Letitia to the old "Bach" to whom the schoolmarm has a sneaking regard. These letters ask for a meeting and make an appointment at different places for the tryst. Miss Letitia, dressed in her best, hurries to meet her gay old admirer "at the arch" as the letter said. She waits and waits. Rain begins to fall, then pour. She can wait no longer. "She won't. He is a base deceiver." Let him dare place himself in her way and she will "cut him dead"; these are the thoughts running through her mind. While she is impatiently waiting, he is doing likewise in the grove. The rain dampens his ardor and penetrates his rheumatic joints until he is obliged to flee in a dreadfully disturbed, disappointed condition of mind. Mattie now beholds her revenge: Letitia is sick in bed with a heavy cold and the old beau is soaking his feet an imbibing a hot draught. She reports their trick's success to Johnny, who is just as pleased. The plot thickens: Letitia approaches from one direction and the old masher from the opposite direction. They meet, look daggers at each other, and never speak as they pass. Mattie and Johnny perform a war dance as they laugh and shout "Revenge!"
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