This picture's situation (off the beaten track and meaty as it is) arrests the attention. The older step-brother is caught by his father's wife and her son burning a will that left him sole heir but that made plain to the world a very unpleasant truth about his mother. The picture should have started with this scene, for nothing that went before was significant beside it, the picture's one big theme. The development from this scene is natural and convincing and it makes a very fair offering. The photography is full of quality, and the acting, though very fine at moments, is not smooth and falls down at the climax, where clear-cut emotional playing would have been of much service. - The Moving Picture World, April 5, 1913
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