Pearl and her husband return home after having been to the theater and to dinner. Pearl is suddenly taken very ill, and hubby rushes out to the drug store for some medicine. The drug store having closed, he returns, but finds that he has ...See morePearl and her husband return home after having been to the theater and to dinner. Pearl is suddenly taken very ill, and hubby rushes out to the drug store for some medicine. The drug store having closed, he returns, but finds that he has left his keys in his overcoat pocket and is compelled to ring the bell. Pearl is too sick to open the door for him, so he attempts to climb a window, but is seen and arrested as a burglar. Pearl meantime decides to come down and open the door for him. So slipping a coat over her nightdress, she goes downstairs, and the door slamming, she also is "locked out." Like hubby, she attempts to climb the window and is also arrested. Hubby is lodged in a cell, with a laborer and a negro as cell mates. Pearl protests against her arrest, but the police think both she and her hubby desperate criminal, and she also is about to be put behind the bars, when her friend the reporter, chances to enter the police station and explains to the captain on duty that a mistake has been made. Hubby is released and he and Pearl wend their way homeward, heaping maledictions on an untimely sickness. Written by
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