Slippery Slim takes out some life insurance. Shortly after he decides to see something of the world, and sallies forth. Mustang Pete, his rival for the hand of Sophie, immediately begins to press suit, and when Slim returns, he finds Sophie and Mustang mounting at his tombstone, which they bought with his insurance money. Thinking Slim a ghost, they flee with Slippery in hot pursuit. Slim never hesitates until he proves that he is really alive, thus defeating the wily Mustang Pete and his evident intentions of taking over his homely widow, "Sophie Clutts."
—Moving Picture World synopsis