All on Account of a Lie (1910)
Billy Larkin is the proud possessor of a new car and he invites his friend Smith for a short spin in the country. With the promise to be home again within an hour or two, Smith enters the auto. An hour later we find them stranded with a broken-down car, twenty miles from home. Billy is no mechanic, and after laboring hopelessly with the intricate machinery of the balky machine gives up in despair and suggests that they look up lodgings for the night and catch the first train for the city in the morning. At the little wayside inn Smith makes an effort to telephone his wife, but the 'phone is out of order. Smith and Billy suffer all the discomforts peculiar to "best" rooms in country hotels, and sigh relievedly when they board the city-bound train. When poor Smith finally reaches borne and endeavors to explain his nocturnal adventures to his skeptical wife, she refuses to believe the truth and he takes refuge in a more conventional falsehood. He tells her he was called out of town on a business matter with Mr. Brown of Pickletown. Later, when Mrs. Smith, still skeptical, is left alone, she wires the following to her husband's supposed friend at Pickletown: "Come at once and see me. Husband must not know." After she leaves the room Smith enters with Larkin, whom Mrs. Smith has never seen, and finds the blotter with the note to his imaginary country customer. Aware that Brown of Pickletown is a fictitious character, Smith urges Larkin to play Brown. Mrs. Smith returns and is introduced to "Brown," and is for the moment pacified. Unfortunately Pickletown harbors a real Brown, who receives Mrs. Smith's message, and being somewhat of a country Lothario hurries into his best clothes and sets sail for the abode of his unexpected admirer. In his haste he leaves the telegram and his wife discovers the duplicity of her spouse. Brown of Pickletown, after some trouble with the butler, is ushered into the presence of Mrs. Smith. He presents his card and a large bouquet, and Mrs. Smith, confused by this, calls upon her husband for an explanation. The real Brown is at once accused by them of being an impostor, and as he is unable to produce the telegram they hustle him out and, threatening him with instant destruction, feel they have disposed of him. But they have not reckoned with Mrs. Brown of Pickletown, who arrives in search of her erring spouse. Here follows another confusing scene for Mrs. Smith. But Smith and Larkin bribe off the Browns and get them to swear they are both impostors. The picture ends happily with the final ejection of the Browns and Mrs. Smith in her husband's arms.
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