On His Wedding Day (1915)

The boy is engaged to be married to the girl and the date is set for three in the afternoon. He is an automobile salesman and gets a call to take out a prospective customer for a demonstration. He takes the lady customer out and does not notify his girl as he thinks that he will be back in time for the wedding. The lady is delighted with the car and insists on going further and further. The boy gets excited and increases his speed to get back in time. Unfortunately he returns through Weedville, where the cops are laying for speeders, and is caught. The cop tries to halt him but the boy runs him by. But the Weedville cops are up-to-date, and he 'phones to the next station to stretch the rope as a speeder is heading that way. The rope is stretched and when the car comes on, the boy is forced to stop. He is only angry considering he is missing his wedding day and proceeds to "pan" the cops, which makes them the more anxious to lock him up and he is taken to the jail, being refused bail in any amount. The girl, meanwhile, has started all arrangements for the wedding and there only remains the arrival of the groom. They can get no news of him, so the wedding has to be postponed. Next morning the girl reads in the paper where they have arrested the boy in company with a woman for joy riding and that he is being held in jail without bail. The chum, too, gets word from him to come and get him out, he moves everything in his path and sends the girl word that the boy is innocent and that he will have him at the house that day at noon and for her to have everything ready for the ceremony. After numerous legal technicalities, he gets the boy out and brings him to the house. The boy wants to change his clothes and brush up, but the girl says that postponed weddings are "tabooed" and that she will be married at the time or not at all. The chum finally brings the two together and at the close of the ceremony the boy and his bride are on a fair way to their goal of happiness.

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