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A picture story notable for the dramatic quality of its action, which is full of suspense, except at the climax, where three persons, an elderly father, his very pretty second wife and his son by a former wife, are standing together, and a thieving butler has accused the son falsely to the jealous father. This is full of dramatic possibilities and in a play- dialogue would have lengthened the suspense and made it effective; but in the picture there are no attempts, so it seems, to explain anything, and the result makes the characters seem stupid and, for a moment, ineffective. The situation is, in the beginning, delightfully introduced and pretty carefully developed. There are clearly-drawn characters, natural acting in distinguished scenes with perfect photography. Alice Joyce's prettiness is also of much use in this picture. Henry Hallem plays the father; Alice Joyce, his second wife; Tom Moore, his son, and James Cooper, his butler. Everyone of these is good, especially the last as a character. - The Moving Picture World, October 11, 1913