In the Nick of Time

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Fast living and gambling have caused the cashier of the Riverdale Bank to embezzle a large sum of money. Detection is evaded by manipulation of the books. He receives news that a bank examiner is coming and realizes that this spells ruin, so, with the aid of a friendly newspaper reporter, false impressions are given regarding the bank's financial standing. This causes a run and possible a means to avoid detection. In the meantime, one of the bookkeepers of the bank, in love with the president'ts daughter, and a member of the engineer corps of the National Guard, is ordered to report for practice maneuvers. The following morning the sensational newspaper article appears, and the president and his daughter are surprised to see the crowd in front of the bank. The president's appeal is fruitless. He decides to negotiate a loan of $50,000 from the nearest bank, twenty miles distant. No other means being available, the girl goes by auto. But the cashier, realizing what this means, blows up the bridge after the girl has crossed it. Returning, she finds she can not cross. Summoning the engineer corps and her lover, they build a pontoon bridge and soon the girl is again on her journey with a detachment of guards and her lover. The guilty cashier, returning to the bank, sees the auto coming, and in desperation draws a revolver and opens fire. The soldiers return the volley, and one of the bullets finds the heart of the cashier. Needless to say, the girl arrives in time to save the bank.