Three Queens and a Jack

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A good looking impecunious youth, hounded to death by his creditors, decides to get out of his difficulties by marrying an heiress. The owner of the estate adjoining his, a man of many millions, has a very handsome daughter, and when we see her for the first time in her beautiful country home, she is welcoming two of her old boarding school friends who have come to pay her a visit. The impecunious youth comes to pay his respects and is invited to a garden party given in the young girls honor. He soon finds himself in a terrible predicament for he cannot decide which of the girls to choose, as they are all equally pretty, but he is anxious to secure the richest. Two of the girls finding that they are both in love with the same young man, decide that they must settle matters by fighting a duel. So we see them meet early one morning by the water with their seconds and soon show themselves most excellent swordswomen. It does not take the friends long, however, to discover their handsome neighbor's duplicity, and to realize that he is playing fast and loose with them, so all three decide to play a trick on him. They send him a note which is supposed to be written by a young widow who is both handsome and wealthy, saying that she has seen him and has fallen in love with him and as she is rich in her own right, there is nothing to prevent their joining hands if he finds her to his liking. The letter ends up by telling him to meet her at midnight at the summer house. The girls lie in wait and watch the young man as he approaches the heavily veiled figure waiting patiently for him. Gently lifting her veil he starts back as a black face smiles up at him, for the girls had dressed up one of the negresses on the place to give the youth the lesson he deserves. Rushing from their hiding place they surround the crestfallen beau, who hurries away in a rage that he has allowed himself to be so trapped.