The Lucky Loser

Lily Worthing receives three proposals from three eligible suitors. But Lily loves to play the kitten, craves attention and protestations. She refuses all that they will try again. Mother had seen the dejected expressions of the three young men, so she walks in on Lily's reverie of conquest and broken hearts, and rudely awakens her gloriful dream with the ultimatum that she, Lily Worthing, make up her mind to accept one of these three young men or go back to boarding school. Lily calls the three lovers together, and tells them that they are to race to Boston, there to find a bride waiting for the winner. All secure saddle horses, and Lily gives the word to "go," and herself starts off in the auto and soon passes them. She gets to the designated hotel and awaits the arrival of the husband-to-be. Lily, however, loves Will Ross the best of the trio and rather instinctively the other two feel it. So before the start is made, the pair had tampered with Will's cinch strap. Nearing the end of the race, the cinch breaks and Will falls and badly sprains his ankle. A farmer picks him up and Will has him send a wire to Lily, telling of his accident. Lily receives the message and hurries to his resting-place, and there promises to marry him. Remembering the other two contestants, who will be waiting for her at the hotel, she hurries back just as they arrive. She secures an old colored woman and as the pair each come to claim their bride, presents them to Topsy as the bride she had meant them to have. Will recovers and takes Lily back to her mother as his wife.