The story
The actor and his wife suddenly found themselves ‘at liberty’ because the manager of their attraction had flitted unexpectedly. They wanted to get back to New York, but even though they sold all their wardrobe they could only arrange sufficient funds to pay for one ticket. The woman, however, had an inspiration: the railroad company carried baggage free. The thespians had no baggage, therefore she decided to ship her husband in a Saratoga trunk in the baggage car ahead. He consented to the plan. The plan was marvelously successful, and the husband was trundled aboard the train without arousing any suspicion. His wife found new troubles, however, for the heartless conductor refused to let her take her little pet dog into the passenger car. The baggage master was a sour person, who hated everybody, even dogs. Called out of the car for a moment, he returned to find that most of lunch had vanished. He blamed it on the dog. Later his cigar was smoked by some scoundrel, and again he blamed the dog, becoming so enraged that he finally hurled the helpless animal into the outer darkness between stations. The woman was very angry when she learned the fate of her dog. Being bright she suspected the cause of the trouble and extracting her baggage from the waiting heap she removed her husband from the trunk and ordered him to devote his time to searching for ‘Tootsie.’ Last heard of them the wife was at a railway station waiting on a trunk, the husband was down the road whistling for the dog, while the baggage master was declaiming bitterly against all human and dog kind.
Summary from The Moving Picture World · 19 April 1913
