Harold embarks on a frenzied headlong dash, involving bootleggers, car chases and multiple changes of vehicle (from missing the train to various cars to a trolley to a police motorcycle to a horse-drawn wagon to horseback), through the countryside and along the crowded streets of Culver City and Los Angeles. Arriving at the Buckingham Estate with mere seconds to spare, Harold bursts in on the wedding ceremony where Ronald is just on the point of putting the wedding-ring on the tearfully-unhappy Mary's finger, but Harold cannot stop stuttering long enough to expose Ronald's intended bigamy. So Harold simply carries Mary off. When they are alone, he tells her about Ronald's secret and shows her the locket. Immensely relieved that she does not have to marry the dislikable Ronald after all, and gratefully realizing that Harold has proven himself to indeed be the caring and chivalrous gentleman whom she had always thought he was, Mary gets Harold to propose to her (with an assist from a passing mail carrier's whistle, which Mary blows to stop Harold's stuttering), and she accepts.