Hoboes Louie, Mike and Fresno Phil arrive in the town of Watts with a phony will claiming that they are the heirs of the estate of wealthy Isaac Watts. Since the long-dead Mr. Watts owned all of the buildings in town, the trio claim that, being his heirs, they are owned years of back rent from the buildings' tenants. The three are distracted, however, when a charming local widow, Mrs. Wonder, also claims to be entitled to the Watts estate, and the three decide to go after her money instead of the Watts estate. However, things don't turn out quite the way they expected.—[email protected]

The hub of the story is Watts, a town in Southern California, said to be a municipal orphan, whose founder has disappeared without leaving any forwarding address, and to whose heirs is now due the accumulated income of fifteen years. The action centers to this hub from three different points. The widow, Mrs. Wonder, poses as the gay relict of the late Isaac Watts and claims the city and all its wonders. Mike, Louie and a nondescript yclept "Fresno Phil," also turn up as heirs, and to add to the mystery, and incidentally, the enjoyment. Little Hazy Fogg, a child of charity, looms upon the horizon as a claimant, and finally the rightful one, supported by such an eminent and powerful friend as Squire Squirt of the legal luminary of the distinguished city without a city father. For a time it appears as if the gay widow has the strongest claim. No opposition can stand before the flash of her eyes and the charm of her costumes. At the Hotel Watts, at the golf game, and other social and some unsocial functions at which the widow appears, all bow down and worship at her resplendent shrine. Even the memory of the Squire, once so clear that he had on a certain occasion signed a will for the missing Isaac Watts, making Hazy Fogg a sole legatee, forgets that important fact in the hypnotic smile of the widow and genuflexes as limberly as the others when she presents her credentials in the shape of a forged will and testament, bequeathing everything to her. In the hope of eventually winning the town by first winning the widow, Mike, Louie and Oily Phil, each in turn, withdraws his claim, and the Squire, with judicial solemnity, somewhat mixed with native gallantry, reluctantly awards the case to the charming adventuress. About this time little Hazy Fogg, worn out and sleepy, casts herself down in the shade of the old apple tree and sinks into profound slumber. The roots have evidently struck hardpan, for the three has begun to grow upward out of the ground. It is shaky and even the slight weight of the child leaning against it sways it to and fro. With a crash it falls, tearing up the earth, and most wonderful thing of all, casting up a tin box with oceans of loose coin and a weather-beaten document which proves to be a will in her favor, signed by Isaac Watts and witnessed by Squire Squirt. A fade-in shows the widow hoofing it to town along the railroad track, and a second fade-in shows the three hobos gathered about a campfire, far, far from the land of Watts.—Moving Picture World synopsis