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As shown here, we see how a rich man's hard luck in speculation turned out as the best of good fortune. It showed him how hollow the love of his fiancée's was and drove him out West, where he not only found "genuine" love, but a gold mine. The backgrounds of the early scenes are a luxurious home in Chicago and the Wheat Pit; then we have the gold fields and finally we come back to the city. The story is conducted melodramatically with the villainess' punishment in the last act, but the character of this fiancée who passes for the villainess isn't interesting enough to make us care much whether she is punished or not. This is the picture's chief weakness; it is part romance, part melodrama. Carl Winterhoff plays the young broker and miner; Adrienne Kroel is his first fiancée, and Winnifrcd Greenwood the genuine sweetheart. Beside these we find in the cast Mrs. Mellville as the broker's mother; Rose Evans, as the society girl's mother; John Lancaster as the trapper; Joe Hazelton, the society girl's father, and others. - The Moving Picture World, October 5, 1912