As a cook Bridget feels very much discontented. She has a sneaking regard for Heinrich Vondiddlebach, the grocer, who is very much in love with her. Bridget comes into the possession of a fortune from an uncle who died in Australia; she decides to live as becomes one of her vast wealth. She buys a home, makes a bid for society, and attracts many elegant gentlemen of pretension and title, who lay siege to her heart in hope of gaining her fortune. Heinrich does not give up his conquest for Bridget’s love; to win her he surrounds himself with a following of colored warriors and decks himself out as “The King of Cooney Island.” He presents himself to the fair Bridget, who immediately falls to his royal magnificence. They are married and soon she discovers that she has been duped and captured by her old friend Heinrich.