The Merchants Hotel is hosting a convention for morticians and a mediation meeting between aircraft manufacturers and their workers.

Tommy Hopkins, a reporter in love with Hope, has tried to get her to take another job with "regular" hours, but she needs the money to pay for the education of her younger sister Charity at an expensive private school.

Hope tries to talk Tommy into doing the moving, but he sees a scoop for his newspaper after recognizing the victim is in fact the missing labor mediator everyone has been waiting for.

Tommy steals it from the girls and, looking for a hiding place from a police search, stumbles upon a high-stakes poker game.

Hope persuades Puddle to give the body to Tommy, but they drag it into a room full of policemen and are taken into custody themselves.

When the body is carried out through the hotel lobby, a drunk named Charlemagne recognizes it and, with a clap of his hands, brings it back to life.

Tommy offers to let the police chief off the hook for false arrest if he can get a marriage license immediately, rather than having to wait days.