Sky Bound

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Al is a clerk in Zelma's father's grocery store. He thinks she is the gnat's nightie, but he is backward, bashful, he hasn't the nerve of a crippled jackrabbit when it comes to whispering sweet nothings to Zelma. Otto is the village sheik-the best dressed man in town. He makes all the female hearts play a tattoo whenever he airs his mail order suit on the street. Zelma rather fancies the well dressed man-about-town and cheats a bit on Al, for Otto takes her out for a boat ride. Al is much dismayed by the fact that his only sweetie has fallen for the heart-breaker and is bemoaning his lack of courage when Phil, the great hypnotist of the Kerosene circuit, tells him he can fix his weak nerves by hypnotism. With a few mystic passes he imbues Al with more nerve than a sick tooth. Our hero is impressed with the demonstration and borrows a book on the magic art. While delivering his groceries, so interested does he become in the study that he walks over the handrail of a bridge~and when he discovers where he is, falls off and lands in the boat which contains Otto and Zelma. Otto, is ore. AI runs home to get more of the great hypnotic power and when Otto reaches there, he gives him an artistic trimming. Otto, for revenge, plots with Phil to rob the safe in the store. Zelma sees them on the job and tries to get Al to chase them away, but his courage has again deserted him. Zelma snatches the book on hypnotism and success fully hypnotizes Al, and he again has all the world's loose courage. Al pursues the villain. They take to airplanes but Al goes after them. There is a big fight with Al and the two bad men chasing each other from plane to plane until in a grand finish Al's plane takes fire and he jumps. Zelma rescues him with a parachute and while the bad men get their just desert, Al and Zelma come to a well earned clinch.