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A melodrama that asks, we think, for too much credulity in the spectator; the story is neither convincing enough to be startling nor has it any freshness except that of arrangement. Yet there is much in it that will attract and, in scene making, backgrounds, lighting and photography, it shows high merits. It opens with an artistic lamplight scene in which the heroine (Luray Huntley) is discovered telling her own fortune with cards. They prophesy a romance and, though she is a married woman, she starts out to manufacture it at once. This love story of hers with the man who has come from the city, especially her going to him at night after she has betrayed her smuggler husband (Stewart Holmes) to the officers and thinks him dead, could not be a love story and all that follows is out of joint and quite illogical; even the characters change. Jim's way of spending the hush money he gets from her is strange. It has action, broken-backed and disjointed as it is, and it has moments of prettiness. The staging (William S. Davis produced it) is excellent; the story very poor. - The Moving Picture World, October 4, 1913