The boss tells Eddie, a clerk, that he will not be back to the office that day, as he is moving into a new apartment house. Eddie is left in charge. However, his good intentions ooze out of his fingertips when his sweetheart invites him (...See moreThe boss tells Eddie, a clerk, that he will not be back to the office that day, as he is moving into a new apartment house. Eddie is left in charge. However, his good intentions ooze out of his fingertips when his sweetheart invites him (or a walk. He goes, comes face to face with his boss, and is discharged. The boss has taken the apartment across the hallway from that of Eddie's sweetheart. That evening, attired in his nightshirt, the boss hears a woman screaming in the hallway. Rushing out, he is unable to find her. On returning, he finds his own door locked with the key inside. He tries to arouse the janitor, but that worthy is making love to a maid in the basement. The boss hears someone approaching, and to corneal himself, rushes into the first room to hand. It is an old maid's. She screams, "Burglar." The boss runs into the hallway, and into the room of Eddie's sweetheart, who has returned from theater with Eddie. They make him reinstate Eddie in his job as the price of saving him from arrest. Written by
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