Having been forbidden by Magistrate Higgins to visit his daughter, Hilda. Eric, her sweetheart, plans to outdo him. He accordingly boards a Zeppelin airship, and when it passes his sweetheart's home, he ties a note to a piece of string weighed down by a small stone and lowers it to her window. The note calls for an appointment, and at the designated hour Hilda drops her valises to her lover in the garden. She descends by means of a perilous way, climbing down the side of the mansion. They then hasten by auto to the Zeppelin airship, which carries them to another part of the country. But in the meantime the magistrate has learned of his daughter's elopement and has telegraphed to the first station of the big airship for the authorities to be on the lookout for his daughter and the insane man she has eloped with. Having obtained a description of the pair the police are not long in finding them, and Eric is led away to an asylum for the insane. The superintendent of the asylum makes loving advances to Hilda, and for the sake of her lover and having a plan in mind she encourages him. She accepts an invitation to have supper with him at his apartments and, while he is under the influence of liquor, she dons his clothes and hastens to the asylum. Disguised thusly she has no trouble in gaining admission to the place. She goes to her lover and takes from under the long black cloak that hides her form a bar of iron and a heavy rope. She then goes back to the superintendent's apartments, dons her female attire and returns to the asylum. Eric, in the meanwhile, has pried away the iron bars and is lowering himself to the ground by means of the rope given him. After having scaled the wall they run into the country where they encounter a gypsy driving a caravan wagon that carries his wife and child. They welcome the runaway lovers. Not long after the start, the little gypsy child, by playing with matches, sets fire to the wagon, all unknown to the driver. Eric climbs through the window to the top of the wagon and yells to the driver to stop the racing horses, as the speed is adding fury to the flames. Just then the horses swerve around a bend in the road and the wagon is overturned in the adjacent stream. Eric and the gypsy rescue the unconscious women and child. Later Eric and Hilda are married. They send a telegram to this effect to the magistrate who, longing to see his daughter and feeling sorry for having placed Eric in an asylum, wires his parental blessing.