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A story taken from Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge." A costume comedy of considerable charm and artistic nicety. Dolly (Mabel Trunnelle) is loved by Joe Willets (Willie Secor), but she is frivolous and ridicules him, so Joe enlists in the King's army and goes away to the American Revolution, where he loses an arm. Five years later he returns at the time of the "No Popery" riots. The rioters try to force Gabriel Varden (Robert Brower), a locksmith, Dolly's father, to make a key to the prison, but Joe rescues him. Simon, a rejected suitor (Barry O'Moore), meanwhile lures Dolly to the cellar of the Bull's Head Tavern. Joe and Gabriel, with a crew, rescue her, after which she admits she has always loved Joe. The principal virtue of the picture lies in the way it is done. As a story it is not wonderful, but the handling makes it very acceptable. - The Moving Picture World, August 16, 1913