- Mr. P. Nutt invented a wonderful flying torpedo which was worth millions when it flew, but his happiness was marred by his daughter's crush on his help hound. The president of the Midnight Thieves' Association craved the torpedo, so he sent Vampa, a well-set-up young woman, to find a man who looked like Sherlock Holmes. They found him in an ash-can pulling a Hoover on the garbage. When the inventor learned that the spies' eyes were upon him, he hastened to the Detective Agency and besought the ash-can dweller to take the case. Father returned--they always do--delighted at his date with Vampa. She arrived with her own copyrighted scheme to make the old duffer jealous. She winked her pretty eyes at the help hound, who could not withstand temptation. The scheme worked fine: the inventor became crazy jealous. "You tub of lard--I could kill you--there!" shouted the frenzied P. Nutt, slapping him on the wrist. His rough words had an awful effect on Fatty, who resorted to tears. Suddenly a tremendous noise was heard, a storm came up--big ocean waves resounded their morbid chantings--the family was eating soup. Camouflaged by this tempestuous ordeal, the gang was making way with the torpedo when Detective Snitch smelled trouble; dashing up into the private chamber he kicked the crooks in the hallway and flew out on the marvelous torpedo. He was nearing France, and the gas was giving way, when he was rescued by the inventor and the family.—Moving Picture World, January 19, 1918
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