Dorothy and Kitty Budd, daughters of Col. Budd are giving a ball to introduce Kitty into society. Senor Yaro, a visiting Spaniard of the diplomatic corps, is in love with Kitty, who in turn is secretly in love with Harry Mitchell, a ...See moreDorothy and Kitty Budd, daughters of Col. Budd are giving a ball to introduce Kitty into society. Senor Yaro, a visiting Spaniard of the diplomatic corps, is in love with Kitty, who in turn is secretly in love with Harry Mitchell, a captain at the post. At the ball Senor Yaro's jealousy is aroused by Kitty's attention to Harry and believing that Kitty has encouraged himself, he calls her to account. Losing bis temper he is about to lay violent bands upon her when she is rescued by Harry who orders Senor Yaro to leave. The next evening Harry and Kitty are out riding when Harry receives a letter from an officer who is arriving by the evening's train. As a joke he and Kitty plan to hold up the ambulance on its way from the depot. She helps Harry and some of his companions to disguise themselves as bandits. Senor Yaro overbears the scheme and seeing a chance to revenge himself he persuades Colonel Budd to send a troop of cavalry to shoot down the bandits who, Senor Yaro tells him, are the real thing. Bob Wilson, a friend of Harry's and in love with Kitty's sister Dorothy, is sent in command accompanied by Senor Yaro. Kitty returns home and tells her sister Dorothy of the Joke. Dorothy in turn tells Kitty of Yaro's report. Fearful that the troop will shoot before the truth is discovered Kitty rides after it and arrives just in time to save her lover and his friends from being shot to pieces. Written by
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