People come and go at Union Depot. Two of them are hobo Chic and his buddy Scrap Iron Scratch. When Chic picks up a suitcase left behind by a traveler, he finds a perfectly fitting suit and a bankroll in the pocket. Not believing his luck, he buys himself a good meal. On the way out, he meets Ruth, a chorus girl who tells him she must be in Salt Lake City by tomorrow, but doesn't have the money for a ticket. He misunderstands her intentions, but when she tells him she is being chased by a madman, Dr. Bernardi, he decides to help her. Meanwhile, Scratch has found a claim check in a stolen wallet tossed out the window of the men's washroom. Because he is drunk and shabbily dressed, he asks Chic to redeem the check, which is for a violin case. Looking inside the case while waiting at a pawnshop, Chic finds that the case is filled with money. After meeting Ruth again inside the station, he gives her some money for a new dress and goes off to buy her a drawing room ticket so that she can go to Salt Lake City in style. Lurking in the shadows, Dr. Bernardi overhears their plans and sends Ruth a message in Chic's name, asking her to meet him on the train. After Ruth pays for the dress and leaves, Chic comes into the shop looking for her. When he reveals that he had sent Ruth no message, then dashes off, the now suspicious shopkeeper takes a close look at the bills Ruth used to pay for her dress. Worried that the money is counterfeit, she then goes to the station master. Meanwhile, on the train, Chic hears Ruth's screams from the train and rescues her from the clutches of Dr. Bernardi, who jumps out the train window to his death. Just then the police arrive to arrest Chic for passing counterfeit money. The real counterfeiter, Bushy Sloan, overhears the arrest. He follows Chic and the police to the shack where the case is hidden, shoots a federal agent and grabs the case. The police believe Chic is guilty, but as Chic is being escorted to a paddy wagon, Scratch, who is inside the paddy wagon, shows the police that he hid the money in a bag of coal. The police then arrest Sloan, and after the federal agent recovers sufficiently from his wounds to describe Sloan as his assailant, Chic and Ruth are free. After Chic puts Ruth on the train, they vow never to forget each other, and Chic and Scratch go off together.