Bluff

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Louie, the janitor of a large New York building, leaves New York for a small town to try to work out his formula for the "manufacturing of gold from baser metals." He has picked at random numerous chemicals and intends to try them out. He arrives in Solemn, where lives Mike, a confectioner, and Claire, a young school teacher. Mike and Louie become friends and both are working on the chemicals, into the town comes a young millionaire, who falls in love with Claire, but she will have none of him until he proves that he can do something. He hears of Mike's discovery and persuades Mike and Louie to form a company with him, and they call themselves "The Big Three." They go to New York, and there by bluff interest a Wall Street magnate in their proposition. After many difficulties it is found that Mike's formula will not make gold of baser metals, but that it is a perfection of "puncture proof rubber." This formula brings Mike and Louie riches and Claire discovers that her millionaire can do something and agrees to marry him.