Believe Me Xantippe (1918)

George MacFarland a wealthy young man who loves adventure bets his friends Thornton Brown and Arthur Sole 20000 that he can commit a crime and elude the police for a year After he forges a check George heads West and does escape arrest for nearly a year despite the proliferation of police circulars bearing his name and his favorite expression Believe me Xantippe In a Colorado hunting lodge he meets Sheriff Kammans pretty daughter Dolly who recognizes and tries to arrest him According to the terms of the bet however he must be captured by a genuine officer of the law which Dolly is not