A Hot Finish

Will E. Ketcham, a drummer for a patent hand grenade fire extinguisher, arrives in Squedunk and proceeds to win the hearts of all the village beauties. This maddens the young town cut-ups and when they learn that he is going to give a demonstration of his extinguisher in the square they sneak to his room and substitute gasoline for the patent compound. A large crowd of farmers and their wives and daughters congregate to see the result of the famed fire killer. They are astounded when the grenades on being thrown into the flames explode and sets the village afire. They chase him through the woods. He gets on a horse and rides away astounded at the result of his experiment. Two children have seen the cut-ups substitute the explosive for the compound and they, upon being slipped by the conspirators, call the girls. The girls get an auto and find the runaway drummer, who is a wandering perplexed fugitive. They bring him back and denounce the rube conspirators, who are severely thrashed by the citizens and the girls. The drummer is again the idol of the girls.