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The pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a dash in society. She expended what for her was an enormous amount of money on clothes, and...See moreThe pretty young stenographer in a New York lawyer's office had two weeks' vacation coining to her, and decided for once in her life she would cut a dash in society. She expended what for her was an enormous amount of money on clothes, and went to a fashionable seashore resort. At first she was quite a success, but trouble came with the arrival of one of the women clients of her employer. This woman, who was naturally disagreeable, took great pleasure in telling everyone the newcomer was "just a working girl." and she wondered at her impudence in coming there. Naturally this spoiled the girl's vacation. One of the young men clerks in her office had told her he was coming down to spend the week end at her hotel, but she wrote him that she was going to leave, as everybody was so mean to her. The young man, being a budding lawyer, settled to his own satisfaction the nature of the trouble. He loved the girl, and determined that while she had been snubbed, those to blame should he compelled to bitterly rue their conduct. To carry out his plans he went to the seashore disguised as a French nobleman. Accompanying him were his "valet and secretary," two of his pals, who were willing to help the joke along. At the seashore hotel, where men were at a premium, the count was a star of the first magnitude. He greatly shocked society, however, by devoting himself exclusively to the girl the others shunned, and when they both disappeared and the announcement was made that they had been secretly married, the grief of the narrow minded women was great. The stenographer and the clerk returned to the city, happy in each other's love, and although the girl was a good American, she admitted that there was one occasion when a count counted. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less