Mrs. Leffingwell runs after the last of her departing party guests to return a forgotten muff. While she's out a burglar enters the apartment and opens the safe. He can't make his getaway before she returns, and tries to bluff his way out by saying he entered the wrong apartment. She sees the open safe and secretly tells the butler to get the police.
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Marion Leonard as Mrs. Leffingwell
Arthur V. Johnson as The Gentleman Burglar
Anita Hendrie as Visitor
United States 08 April 1909
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