On one of the Jarrs' quiet Sundays, shipping clerk Fritz calls on Jarr and tells him that his sister, the sentimental fat lady, has fallen in love with Dinkston the poet, adding that the lady has determined to die because Dinkston evinces little affection for her. Jarr feels it is none of his business, but his wife induces him to do something. Jarr visits Fatima with Fritz and finds her lying on the folding bed, which completely blockades the entrance. While they are begging her to get up so they may enter, Vera Grimm, the lady reformer, calls and learns the whole sad story. Blaming Dinkston, she starts out on his trail. She catches him, snaps a pair of handcuffs on his wrists and hustles him to Fritz's home. While struggling with the bed, first Jarr, an officer, and then Hogan. who is Dinkston's rival, are pinned beneath it. Dinkston spies Fatima coming for him and "beats it." After a chase, he takes refuge in a powerhouse and hides underneath a big dynamo. Hogan, with a fiendish desire for revenge, sneaks to the switchboard and starts the machine running. The chief engineer stops it, but too late: the poor fellow has been magnetized. Nobody can touch him. Fatima arrives, and Dinkston, with malice aforethought, embraces her. The electric shock knocks her into Hogan's arms, and snatching a pair of rubber gloves, Dinkston escapes to Jarr's home. There he takes off his gloves and attracts all the bric-a-brac in the house to himself. The police finally nab him, with the aid of a rope. At last, Fritz is seen reducing the folding bed to kindling wood, while Jarr, with a sigh of intense relief, complacently lights a cigar and blames his wife Cora for all the rumpus.