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This is a melodrama, but as all know there is a vast difference possible between the worst and the best of these. More than one melodramatic picture in both the Licensed and Independent camps, of late, has been rapid and almost idiotic in its absolute disregard for possibility. We even like a melodrama to "stretch a point" occasionally when by doing so it can reach few more tears; but beyond a certain line they ought never to go. This picture doesn't cross that line. What it shows may not all be probable, in fact is not, but it shows nothing that is certainly unreasonable. It is a story of military life in India. The brother of the colonel's ward is a lieutenant. He is the only one who knows it and he won't tell. In the cantonment there is another lieutenant who is a Lothario and this villain has the simple girl in his toils. To frustrate the villain, the brother has to make himself known to his sister. Villain enters, pulls gun and in a struggle is wounded. Girl escapes and hero is arrested on complaint of the villain. To save his family's honor, hero refuses to say a word; is going to take his punishment, but the girl confesses. Hero is then praised and villain has to resign. Mr. Costello plays the brother; Miss Neason the sister; Mr. Dunn the villain and Mr. Van Dyke Brooke, the colonel. It is an excellent filler. - The Moving Picture World, February 10, 1912