This is a real feature. The author is Rex Beach. Quality shows all the way through the two reels. The picture is highly dramatic; there are many moments of deep suspense, and there are situations that stir the emotions. In the duel scene, when the artist drives a bullet into the body of the woman who has innocently caused the trouble, there are all the elements of tragedy. The woman has sought to stop the duel; at the moment the shots are exchanged she comes upon the ground and rushes in between the combatants. There is tragedy in the hand-to-hand encounter between the two men in later years, when the lamp is overturned and the house is set en fire, resulting in the death of Durand, the rescue of the daughter by the artist and his temporary loss of reason. There is deep pathos in the appeal of the orphaned girl, in love with the man who had accidentally killed her mother, and who had indirectly caused the death of her father, when she tries to restore his reason; other means failing, she sits at the piano and plays and sings "The Hours I Spent With Thee, Dear Heart, Are As a String of Pearls to Me." It is a rare situation, one to impress the beholder and to affect him. Space forbids enumeration of the carefully executed scenes. They are all splendidly done. To Earle Williams, who portrayed the artist, falls the most of the work. He has risen to his fine opportunity and given us something unusual in pictured drama. So, also, has Edith Storey. It is difficult to realize that this is the same girl who only a year or two ago was doing work the exact antithesis of the part she plays here, the cowgirl of the plains, fearless in horsemanship. Her versatility is unique. Above all, she is an actress. Roger Lytton, who plays Durand, is strong throughout, Mrs. Swayne has the part of the mother; in this characterization she brings to bear all her experience and proved talent. - The Moving Picture World, February 8, 1913