A Doctored Affair

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Harry and Tillie are preparing to elope when her dad appears and boots his would-be son-in-law out of the house. Tillie is locked up in her room, and to regain her liberty feigns illness and apparently swoons. Dad is troubled and telephones for a doctor. Harry, who is hovering around the corner, sees the doctor coming and bribes him to help him in a scheme to see Tillie. Hairy secures a false beard and makes up as a doctor and enters the house, where he is permitted to call on the patient and arrange new plans for an elopement. His high spirits are his undoing, however, for suspicious father, looking out of the window, sees the fake doctor fooling with the false beard. He telephones the doctor and finds him in his office, and lays a trap for Harry, beating him to the doctor's office. When Harry enters he is set upon by dad, but makes his escape, running to the meeting place with Tillie. The couple rush to the home of a minister and the ceremony is nearly over when dad rushes in and attacks Harry. The doctor, angered at dad's actions in his office, has called the police, and they rescue Harry from the irate man. The ceremony proceeds, and when Harry and Tillie exit they see dad in the clutches of the police, and they relent. A compromise is effected, by which he gives them his blessing and they withdraw the charges against him and secure his release.