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A melodrama which combines the Selig qualities in a marked degree and affords opportunity for some interesting character delineation. Two distinct types are shown, and the conception of the parts is accurate. The actors interpret the peculiarities of these two types so closely that one becomes involved in a mental consideration of their relative values as personalities in a community. There are a number of dramatic incidents which rouse one to a more than ordinary pitch of excitement. A delicate girl, for example, is carried away by a deformed and insane man, thrown into an old building and the place set on fire. Then suddenly he changes and the endangered girl is rescued, while the one who induced him to commit the deed is thrown in instead. But everybody is rescued, the lovers marry and the erring ones are properly forgiven. But the thrills in the film are numerous and keep one constantly on the alert. The technical quality of the film is quite as good as its pictorial features, and one feels constrained to say that it promises to be popular. - The Moving Picture World, January 22, 1910