A man incurs gambling debts and his life is threatened because of it.

He concocts a plan to get a single lady he is acquainted with to marry him.

She has money, which could be a solution to his problem, but she is very large, tall lady and he is not attracted to her.

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She resists at first but quickly finds out that she needs to be married in order to keep control of her inheritance. (Kind of a strange and sudden development.)

So, she agrees to marry him, not knowing about the gambling debt.

Once married, she decides to go on a suicidal series of adventures - for which he has no appetite.

Fearing that he may not be able to squeeze the money out of her, he has to come up with another plan. 