Twin Flats

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Babe and Raymond, two pals, and tenants in the Riverside Apartments, are both ruled by wives who insist on their remaining home nights. The night of a big poker game at the club, the pals frame up a scheme whereby, appearing to flirt with each other's wives, a fight will follow and in the melee, Babe and Raymond will beat it to the club. The scheme works fine, for after the fake fight is over an ambulance is summoned to carry Raymond off to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Raymond makes a spectacular escape from the ambulance and reaches the club only to learn that Babe has not yet arrived. Raymond with the assistance of the other club members, masked as burglars, force an entrance into Babe's flat. Kate, Babe's husky spouse, mistaking Raymond and his pals for regular burglars, enters the combat, and routs the entire crowd, reserving Raymond as her last victim. During the confusion, Babe escapes and arrives at the club, where he learns with consternation of the treatment meted out to his club mates. Raymond has fared even worse than the others, and when Kate gets through with him he surely is a fit subject for the hospital, and this time he makes no objection to being carried there, where he is bandaged and put into bed. Babe, in the meantime, has been a heavy winner in the card game and also has partaken of innumerable liquid refreshments. When he arrives at the apartment house he stumbles into Raymond's flat. Mrs. Raymond, waiting well armed for the return of her nubby, brings down with full force on Babe's head the rolling pin meant for Raymond's reception. Stunned and battered, Babe is also carried to the hospital, where he finds himself in the next bed to his pal.