A Guardian's Luck (1912)
Moxie Mickleberry has a pretty ward, Polly. One day Moxie, who is quite aged, receives a letter from his lawyer advising that if Polly should ever marry he will have to replace her fortune, which, in his present financial straits, he would be unable to do. The lawyer advises him to marry Polly himself and thus save embarrassment. Moxie thinks it a scheme and determines to carry it through. In the meantime his sister's two children come to spend the day and Moxie has the time of his life keeping them out of mischief. They shoot him full of arrows, intended for a target set up in the library, and damage the neighbors' clothes hung out on the line in the yard. Moxie finally gets a chance and writes Polly a letter telling of his undying love and that he is determined to win her for his wife. Of course Polly has a nice young sweetheart and the two plan to fool the old guardian and cure him of his folly. Polly writes a note saying he must interview her and pour out his love and, if at the end of ten minutes she does not turn and speak, he will know silence means consent. Then they rig up a statue in Polly's clothes and place it in the parlor, light the fire in the grate to help make it all the warmer for him and hide to await the outcome. Meanwhile, the children load the fireplace with a stuffed target, arrows, bows, etc., and Moxie is pleading his cause to the veiled statue when a volume of smoke overwhelms him. He investigates, dirties himself frightfully pulling the scorching stuff from the grate, discovers the deception of the statue, smashes it angrily on the floor, is arrested by a cop who thinks the house is on fire, and the mix-up culminates at the minister's house where Polly and her beau are being married. Moxie realizes he is stung, gives them his sooty blessing and collapses in the arms of the law.
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