Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I. Steele. The broker is out, but his wife, who knows that her husband expects a rich customer in with a check for $10,000 to close an option, mistakes Roscoe for this Mr. R.U. Stout of Showme, Missouri. Thinking to be of assistance to her husband in his business, Mrs. Steele is very affable and finally invites the supposed Mr. Stout to go to luncheon with her. Steele returns with the necessary papers and is told by his office boy that his wife has gone to a gay café with the new janitor. The option expires in fifteen minutes, but Steele longs for blood and takes a revolver from his desk and starts for the restaurant. No sooner has he departed than the right Mr. Stout appears. With Al, the office boy, he goes in pursuit of the broker. Meanwhile Roscoe and Minta are having a pleasant meal, entirely unaware of the danger in which they are about to be. Mr. Stout develops unexpected speed, keeps pace with the bounding Al and they arrive in time to prevent a murder and get the necessary papers before the expiration of the option.