- When Octavius received a letter signed by Professor Harper, asking him to come out to his country residence to solve a mystery, he felt greatly flattered. When he arrived at the Harper home, the Professor explained that for the past two weeks, somebody had been regularly stealing from his collection of antiquities. Warning the professor to say nothing of his presence in the house, Octavius settled himself in the room with the curios and waited. While he was waiting, the professor received a telegram reminding him of an important engagement in the city that evening. In the excited hurry of departure, the professor completely forgot about Octavius. Thus it happened that when a mysterious female glided into the curio room, and abstracted a few more of the professor's relics, and when Octavius, starting to pursue her, knocked over a few antique busts, the butler, hearing the noise, and believing Octavius to be a burglar, promptly collared him and threw him into the wine cellar. In the wine cellar, Octavius found the missing curios hidden in the pocket of a long coat. When the professor returned the next morning, and effected the release of his ill-used guest, Octavius' first question concerned the identity of the person in the household who owned a stork-print kimono--the only thing he had been able to distinguish clearly about the mysterious female who swiped the relics. The professor reported that the kimono belonged to his daughter. Octavius ordered that the household be summoned before him. He recognized the mysterious female at once. Nonetheless Octavius's duty was only too dear. So he turned sadly to the professor, and informed him that his daughter was guilty of the theft. The beautiful mystery was not the professor's daughter. She was the second maid, and had simply "borrowed " the kimono. The professor's real daughter came in just in time to hear Octavius accuse her of the crime. Things immediately became so lively that Octavius was glad to escape alive.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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