Puffy buys forty cents worth of birthday gifts for the girl, but is knocked down by a flivver and the gifts picked up by the rival are presented to the girl. Included among them are a ten cent diamond ring, which is discovered as bunk by ...See morePuffy buys forty cents worth of birthday gifts for the girl, but is knocked down by a flivver and the gifts picked up by the rival are presented to the girl. Included among them are a ten cent diamond ring, which is discovered as bunk by the girl's father. He offers the girl's hand to the one who can first show him a thousand dollars. Rival steals the safe from police department headquarters and agrees to split the swag with Puffy if he will do the driving. The flivver, out of control, runs directly into police headquarters where the rival is captured and Puffy given the thousand dollars reward which goes with the thief's capture. Puffy then becomes a nervous wreck fearing the escape from jail of his rival, who has threatened to escape and "get" him. He does make his escape, and in disguise as a doctor recommends a sanitarium to Puffy. With a bomb concealed in the back of the car the rival threatens the demolition of Puffy, but inadvertently drops a lighted cigar on it and is blown over the prison wall and into the chain gang, while Puffy and the girl escape uninjured. Written by
Motion Picture News, August 22, 1925
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