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Ed Yale and Arthur Bishop are partners in business and rivals for the hand of Mabel Taylor. Her real affection is for Arthur. Kate, her sister, is affectionate towards Ed, but he devotes all of his time to wooing Mabel. Ed and Arthur are ...See moreEd Yale and Arthur Bishop are partners in business and rivals for the hand of Mabel Taylor. Her real affection is for Arthur. Kate, her sister, is affectionate towards Ed, but he devotes all of his time to wooing Mabel. Ed and Arthur are helping the two girls bake gingerbread. Arthur forsakes his culinary attempts long enough to tender Mabel his ring as a remembrance. It slips off her finger a moment later and becomes mixed with the gingerbread dough. It becomes embedded in a gingerbread man which Mabel bakes and gives to Arthur. He discovers it in the cake and keeps the cake and ring as a remembrance, telling Mabel nothing about it. Rivalry increases between Ed and Arthur to such an extent that Mabel, on the eve of her birthday, tells them that the one who brings her the best present can be considered the successful suitor. Ed buys an expensive chain and locket, places it in an envelope and guardedly puts it in his office desk. Arthur also buys a handsome present and hides it in his desk. Both at their respective desks eagerly await 12 o'clock on Miss Taylor's birthday. Just before noon, while Arthur is answering a telephone call, Ed slips out of the office, locking the door and speeding away to Mabel's house with his own present, after carefully having hid Arthur's present. Arthur, frantic over the loss, decides to place his chances in the cherished gingerbread man. Securing this, he climbs over the transom of the office and speeds off to Mabel. Meanwhile, Kate has played a trick on Ed by writing a note to Mabel ridiculing her and signing Ed's name, she places this on the table, and when Ed rushes in a moment later he lays his envelope containing his present on the table close to Kate's letter. Kate unnoticed substitutes her envelope for Ed's. Mabel reads the note supposedly written by Ed and pours bitter invective upon him, so that he is tenderly led out of the room by the secretly delighted Kate, hopelessly crushed. In the adjoining room, Kate opens Ed's envelope, pretends she thinks the locket and chain is intended for her and is so sincere about it that Ed falls in love on the spot and in a crushing embrace forgets all about Mabel. Arthur rushes into the house in time to catch Mabel in the midst of her ill humor. Learning the outcome, he hands her the gingerbread man and watches the effect upon her. Miss Taylor gazes in scorn at the present, and unable to appreciate the humor in the presentation of such a gift, angrily crumbles it in her hand. The ring disengages itself from the gingerbread cake and slips over her engagement finger. Then Arthur explains circumstances to her. Ed and Kate come in and she tells of her trick. Everything ends happily. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less