Almost Right

暂无简介Luke Sharpe. a private detective, and his assistant, Jigger, are very much down on their luck or so represent themselves to Beto, the proprietor of a ten cent lodging house, so they acquire accommodations for both for a dime, and turn in. When Jigger sees Luke is asleep, and having a little change in his pocket, he sneaks off to a cabaret. There he notices a crook, one very badly wanted by the police and for whom a handsome reward is offered. He also notes that the crook has designs on the purse of a woman (the woman crook) seated at another table. He returns to the lodging house, wakes up Luke, tells him of his discovery; both return to the cabaret, state their profession to the proprietor, the object of their mission, to capture the crook, and arrange to be engaged in the place. The proprietor helps them to disguise themselves, Luke as a waiter and Jigger as a pianist. Luke thinks more of the bar than the demands of his business as a waiter, and after trying to inflict on the patrons a song and breaking all dishes while waiting on them, he suddenly notices the crook snatch the lady's purse and run. He calms the excited patrons by telling them that he and his associate are detectives, to leave the matter in their hands and they will capture the thief. The statement is received with derision, and the proprietor having had enough of them anyway, is ably assisted in ejecting them. They return to their lodging house, and after accusing and abusing one another for the fiasco at the cabaret they drop into their cots. They have not been asleep very long when the crook arrives and gets into a bed close to them. Luke, who has the habit of sleeping with one eye open, notices the crook, and decides when he is asleep to capture him for the reward, but not to say anything to Jigger about his plan. He goes into another room and proceeds to disguise himself as an old miser. Jigger, however, has also noted the crook, and plans to do the same thing as Luke proposes, but remains in the same room to make up his disguise. The crook wakes and sees Jigger making up and determines to settle him. Luke enters as a miser, goes to his cot and engages in the characteristic pastime of counting his money. Jigger, not knowing his partner through the disguise, thinks he is a real miser, and by a trick gets the money. Luke, to keep up the character, so noisily grieves over his loss that he wakes up all the lodgers. The crook tells him that Jigger is the man who robbed him, and commands the miser to take his (the crook's) knife and kill Jigger. During this Jigger has again gone to bed, but with his feet where his head ought to be. Luke has noted this. He stealthily creeps up to the bed and plunges the knife through the open space between Jigger's feet and into the mattress. Jigger jumps out of bed, giving a scare to the crook, while Luke assumes to be scared. At this instant police, who had been chasing the crook, break into the room. The crook being by the door, escapes as they enter, not noticed by the officers. They approach Jigger about the crook. Jigger, still greatly agitated over the attempt on his life, answers, \"He's gone, but arrest that man,\" pointing to Luke, who snatches the long gray-haired wig off and discloses his identity to Jigger. Jigger also removes his disguise and they embrace. This is not the end, for the officers now recognize the two bum detectives and place them under arrest.