Tillie's Punctured Romance

Tillie, a country maiden, is throwing blocks of wood for her dog to fetch to her. Charlie, a city chap, wanders into range and receives an unusually-large block in the middle of his face. Tillie, seeing that a stranger is in distress, drags him to her home. Here the stranger discovers that Tillie's father has a bankroll. With threats and promises, he induces her to get the money and go to the city with him. Their first stop is at a cabaret, where Tillie takes the first drink of her young life. Things go along smoothly until they are disturbed by pretty young damsel Mabel, who has followed them since their arrival in the big city. She turns out to be Charlie's city girl, and on getting hold of the money that Tillie kept on her person, Charlie leaves with Mabel. Tillie imbibes too freely and is thrown out into the street, then arrested and jailed. was put out into the street. Her jailers, discovering her name to be Tillie Banks, telephone to the big millionaire of the city, Douglass Banks, and find that she is his niece, whom he has never seen. She is escorted to her uncle's beautiful mansion, where she creates such a scene that her uncle disowns her and orders her from the house. With nowhere to go, she looks for a job and secures one as a waitress. Her uncle, being much distressed by the incident, goes away mountain-climbing to forget it. Here he takes a terrible fall and his guide, thinking he is dead, telephones to Mr. Banks' secretary, who immediately goes looking for Tillie, his only known living relative. Meanwhile, Charlie has made use of the bankroll by dolling up Mabel and himself and they are taking life easy. One day they wander into the restaurant where Tillie works and when she sees him, the cause of her downfall, she faints. Charlie and Mabel make their escape; going to the park to rest, Charlie buys a newspaper and sits down to read about the hunt that is on for missing heiress Tillie Banks. He immediately sneaks away from Mabel and returns to the restaurant to explain matters to Tillie's satisfaction and drags her off to a minister, where they are married. Whenthey go back to the restaurant, they are met by the late millionaire's secretary, who informs Tillie that she's an heiress. The heiress and her new husband proceed to their new home: the Banks' mansion. Here they entertain lavishly and a few days later give a grand ball. This ended in a frightful fracas through the machinations of Mabel, who has managed to secure a position as maid in the household. Amid the melee, the uncle returns--alive and only slightly injured--and has the whole party thrown out into the street. Charlie, discovering that Tillie has no worldly goods, renounces her; he grabs Mabel's hand and off they go, pursued by vengeful Tillie. In the ensuing excitement, the city police and the river police are called out as Tillie has pursued the recreants to the waterfront. There, amid all the excitement, an automobile loaded with policemen runs her down, and she, automobile, and load take an awful drop into the river below. TIllie is finally rescued and Mabel, seeing the destruction that the conscienceless Charlie has wrought, falls into Tillie's arms, and both women renounce Charlie as the police drag him away.