Herbert Prior and Mabel Trunnelle in Keeping Mabel Home (1911)

Mabel Trunnelle

Herbert Prior

Billy Blake&apos;s assiduous courtship of Mabel Martin, a rich young society girl is brought to a crushing pause by the news that Mabel is to be taken abroad by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have concluded that their daughter is fit...

Keeping Mabel Home

Billy Blake's assiduous courtship of Mabel Martin, a rich young society girl is brought to a crushing pause by the news that Mabel is to be taken abroad by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have concluded that their daughter is fitted by her beauty and their money to occupy a more exalted position in the social world than can be given her by a simple, if hustling, young American. Mabel cares for her young hustler, but the trip to London opens up a wonderful vista to her pretty brown eyes and after all, Duchess, Countess, prefixed to one's name, does sound attractive. Billy's bitterness is augmented by the manner in which the Martins' haughty English butler ushers him out. He goes to his room. A newspaper headline catches his eye, to the effect that the heirs of three of the greatest titles in England are missing. Billy, desperate to "keep Mabel home," conceives a diabolical plot that will accomplish his object and also give a vicious job to the snobbishness of Mabel's parents. By the aid of a business associate in England and the cables, he convinces the Martins that they have a Duke in their midst, and therefore a trip abroad is unnecessary. The butler has ducal honors thrust upon him and questioning not the source of his good fortunes, his butler-ship gratefully accepts everything coming to him and reaches for more while the going is good. Billy's fondest hopes are realized. Mabel's parents try to force the girl to accept the pseudo Duke's attentions and the American spirit of scorning to be bossed coming to the surface the girl takes his amorous lordship into the woods and loses him, picks up the waiting Billy and off they go to, well, where all proper young people should go when they're really, really fond of each other. In fear and perturbation, they repair to the parental roof where, after many weary miles on the hoof, the Duke has also arrived, crying aloud at the wrong done him. A cyclone of fatherly wrath is about to be wreaked upon the youngsters when Billy's last trump opportunely appears and the parents, aghast at what might have been, gracefully accept their son-in-law. And the Duke, alas! To the kitchen for him, where 'tis true he finds some consolation in the caresses of one he spurned in his little week of power.

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