The author of this narrative is not named. Seeing that there is one group of scenes and one character only in it that is strongly conceived, we read between the lines to this effect, that a scenario with a very trite situation was submitted, but that it gave a chance for the addition and was rewritten in the Vitagraph studio. We take pleasure in expressing our admiration for the artist who imagined the scenes that are good, so good that they raise the whole offering to a high plan of desirability. Looked at roughly, the picture tells the old story of a girl who loves a worthy man; but who consents to wed the son of a creditor of her father. The character of this good- for-nothing youth gives tone and meaning to the whole situation, even lends an Ibsenesque touch to it. He is a morphine fiend, even his father doesn't know how badly off he is until immediately after the ceremony. There are in the opening a few trite scenes and then comes a scene in which we begin to suspect the reason why the youth's father wants him to get married to any girl who will be likely to make him brace up. He is playing a rather unpleasant game for the sake of his boy. Following this scene, comes the wedding ceremony at which the morphine fiend breaks down and hurriedly excuses himself. The two fathers, in a very fine scene, find him in the next room and discover the reason for the queer action. All this group of scenes is far above the average. It is followed by a tritely pleasant ending. Mr. James Young holds up the opium taker very well indeed. As finely played, by George Ober and Tefft Johnson, are the roles of the girl's father and the boy's father. Edith Story does excellent work as the girl; Rose Tapley as her mother, and James Morrison as her lover. - The Moving Picture World, January 4, 1913
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