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Shields, Chester, and Mont Allen are engaged in a scuffle in the dark. Chester is hiding under the table while Shields and Mont Allen, each believing the other to be the hated Chester, batter themselves to a finish. When the door is broken down, Chester recognizes the cop as an army buddy, who explains to him that he (the cop) is the one who is wearing the silver plate. Hearing this, Chester takes a new lease on life, knocking down his two enemies when they get up from the floor. The two men slink off while he roughly holds the haughty Ethel, who gladly submits to his cave man embraces.
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Renault, a movie star, he pens a love message to Chester and signs Rita’s name. Ethel finds out that Chester has been a devil with the women in the past she begins to play for him. Chester confesses that it was all a hoax and that he has never set eyes on Rita, but she becomes the more attracted to him when she believes him to be an accomplished liar.
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