Maids and Muslin

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Two partners run a department store. Both are in love with the cashier. Finding that she prefers his partner, the rival becomes hateful and vindictive. Through carelessness while waiting on a customer, the partner causes a disturbance in the store, the credit of which is given to his rival. He decides to take it out on the partner, and beats him up, after his scheme to cause a quarrel between the partner and his sweetheart has failed. The rival receives a bag of counterfeit bills from a friend. He is cornered and called upon to wait on a customer. He puts his bag down, and the customer, having a similar bag, puts his down beside it. The partner dusting the store, mixes the bags and the villain gives him the wrong bag. The villain then thinking to oust his partner, robs his safe, plants the money from the bag in the partner's safe, and turns over the store to his partner. He warns the police and the sweetheart that the partner is a counterfeiter and then returns to the store to see what has happened during his absence. Meanwhile the police have raided the store, before the partner has had a chance to hide. The partner captured, the villain is gloating over him, when the customer returns with the bag, presents it to the police and explains that the villain tried to pass the counterfeit money onto him. The villain is arrested, the money which he had taken out of the safe found on his person and handed over to the customer. The partner wins his sweetheart.