Caught with the Goods (1911)
Fitzie McClellan, a young married man, is invited by George Warren, a friend, to go out for a good time. Fitzie accepts when he is told of the gay time he will have and upon leaving the house tells his wife he has to meet a business man. The wife, however, is suspicious and, accompanied by a gentleman friend, visits several cafés in the hope of trailing down her husband. Fitzie becomes sadly intoxicated and in an argument with a cabman, does considerable damage to this latter whereupon he is arrested, taken to the station and let out on bonds. He is accompanied home by a detective, who locks the culprit in his room and sleeps just outside the door, with the key in his hand. The next morning he is taken to court where he is sentenced to thirty days in jail. Fitzie is alarmed for fear his wife will find out his disgrace and sends a note by Warren telling her he has been called to Mexico for thirty days. Three weeks elapse and Mrs. McClellan, knowing her husband will be home from Mexico in a week, plans to give him a reception in true Mexican style. She employs a Mexican man and woman to teach her and her guests the language and dances. Warren hears of this and takes books on the language to McClellan, who proceeds to inform himself on Mexican costume, makes a hit with his wife, which partly mollifies her when one of Fitzie's jailers breaks up the festivities by announcing that Fitzie had not been to Mexico but in jail. The truth is out, Fitzie wittily obtains his wife's forgiveness.
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