Gerald and Percy, whose ardent friendship and bitter rivalry caused all the trouble in "Fruit and Flowers" and "The Widow," are found where they were left at the conclusion of the latter picture, in their hall room, Percy endeavoring to nurse a damaged optic back to health by means of a raw pork chop, and Gerald preparing to fill his empty stomach by cooking the chop that fell to his share. A letter is brought in announcing the pleasing fact that Percy has inherited a tidy sum of money and, a la Damon and Pythias, they proceed to enjoy it together and move into luxurious bachelor quarters where they are skillfully waited upon by a well-trained valet. They next are seen on a tennis court, where they arc the center of attraction to a group of eligible summer girls, but Gerald and Percy are not to be caught again, not they. But alas! the heiress appear and, well, they forget their good resolutions and open another impetuous amatorial campaign and are once more deadly rivals. They each propose and are both rejected. Retiring to their expensive apartments, they are plotting vengeance upon the fair but haughty one, when the strains of a grind organ smite upon their ears. Both seized by the same idea, they dash forth, drag the Italian musician into their room and engage him for their dark plot. They purchase for him costly raiment, and discovering that an afternoon reception is being held at the home of their inamorata, they seize him and forcing their way past the sour-visaged footmen, present him as the Count of Montebello to their unwilling hosts. Their base plan works, however, and although he makes many blunders, he is received with great eclat. Now, he is supposed to make love to the haughty heiress and marry her, so that the two conspirators may hand her a hearty laugh, but, alack! he falls in love with the chic French maid and upsets their plans. Their plot is discovered and a counterplot is secretly put into action by the clever heiress, who proceeds to announce her engagement to the Count, much to the joy of Gerald and Percy. The wedding day arrives and the ceremony is performed. Then the two plotters denounce the Count as an organ-grinder and begin to laugh. But the laugh is quite a brief one, for the bride's veil is raised, exposing the face of the petite maid, and a seeming old maid aunt removes her disguise and stands revealed as the heiress. Again our young friends are thrown into the street and returning sorrowfully to their bachelor quarters they are relieved of their last dollar by the Italian bridegroom who collects his fee. The landlord then orders them out for non-payment of rent and back to the hall room they wander, where they relieve their hunger by devouring bologna sausage and dry bread donated by the sympathetic little slavey.