There are strong situations in this drama. The story is novel from several points of view, but it is logical throughout. The best scene is where the father is portrayed by Frank Russell, has brought to his home the paymaster, in love with his daughter, under the influence of liquor. The father knows the payroll, and the money has aroused his cupidity. The daughter, splendidly assumed by Florence Barker, finds the paymaster and gets him out of the house and on his way to his home, Her brother comes home, tired out, and throws himself on the bed and falls asleep, The father returns and strangles the son in his efforts to get the payroll. The daughter returns, hears the commotion, and enters the room, the streaming light showing to the father that he has killed his own son. It is all a dream, to be sure, and the terror of the daughter as she awakes in the kitchen of her home, where she had dropped asleep in her chair, is very real. The sight of her father and brother and sweetheart, in sound health, drives her to tears for relief. The producer and all who have to do with this picture are deserving of high praise. - The Moving Picture World, November 9, 1912
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