Frenzied Finance

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As brokers Pokes and Jabbs certainly live up to the name, for outside of the office furniture, their one asset is their nerve. Added to business troubles Jabbs as the real businessman of the firm is driven to distraction by Pokes who, instead of attending to the office affairs, devotes all his time in flirting with Ethel, the stenographer. In despair Jabbs discharges Ethel, much to the chagrin of Pokes, who, however, dare not interfere. In vain Jabbs seeks to engage a new stenographer, but the applicants sent to him by the employment bureau only add to the worries of poor Jabbs, while Pokes sits by and enjoys the proceedings. Finally, Jabbs is forced not only to re-engage Ethel but also to employ Millie, Ethel's friend, as his own stenographer. One of their clients enters with a large deposit which he entrusts with Pokes and Jabbs. The deposit is the largest that either members of the firm has ever handled and extraordinary precautions are employed to insure its safety. However, the modern crook resorts to unusual methods in his manner of plying his trade, so that when the client, having changed his mind about leaving the deposit in the office, returns to claim it, the partners suddenly realize that not only have the crooks stolen the money, but the safe as well. While Jabbs and the client seek the assistance of the police, Pokes devotes himself to the pursuit of the crooks and the safe. Catching up with them, he overpowers them, but during the struggle, the safe, released from control, rolls downs to the docks and falls into the harbor. However, undaunted, Pokes dives into the water after the safe and when Jabbs arrives with the police. Pokes has succeeded in salvaging the precious money.