Jack is a rather gay young bachelor, and it is only the fact that he is at the end of his financial rope that causes him to consider seriously a ridiculous will made by his departed aunt, specifying that he must be married before his twenty-sixth birthday or her fortune is to be used to establish a home for "Indigent Plumbers." The day of the twenty-sixth birthday arrives, and a cart note from his aunt's lawyer notified him that he must be a married man by 4:00 p.m. or sacrifice a fortune to undeserving plumbers. Jack puts it up to the lawyer to get him anyone that will leave him after the ceremony. He goes into the park for a walk, where he rescues a girl from a pickpocket, and gets a serious knife wound in the arm before the thug is overcome. Jack finds himself in the hospital and only two hours to find a bride. The girl in gratitude hastens to her father's office and shows him the card of her rescuer. Her father is the lawyer and she learns that Jack must have a wife in a few hours. Jane, without telling her father, promptly decides to save the fortune for the young man, and with her maid procures a license, ring and minister and veiling herself in an automobile veil, goes to the hospital, where Jack is married just in time. The lawyer comes to sympathize with Jack in his loss, and learns that his daughter has become a bride. Expostulations are too late, and Jane swears her father into secrecy and returns to her home, leaving Jack in ignorance of his wife's identity. However, he soon learns who his wife is.
