Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation. Impressed by his flashy clothes, the townspeople assume that Homer has achieved success. Attempting to win Rachel Prouty from his rival, Arthur Machim, Homer continues the deception by announcing that his employer, Kort and Bailly, has dispatched him to enroll stockholders for a proposed new plant to be built in Mainsville. Machim discovers the sham and denounces Homer as a crook.
Charles Ray
Homer Cavender
Otto Hoffman
Silas Prouty
Priscilla Bonner
Rachel Prouty
John Elliott
Mr. Bailly
Gus Leonard
The Grocer
Joseph Hazelton
The Shoe Store Man
Bert Woodruff
Farmer Higgins
Louis Morrison
Old Tracey
Mollie McConnell
Dowager
Ralph McCullough
Arthur Machim
Walter Higby
Old Machim
Harry Hyde
Mr. Kort
