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A four-part picture made by the Paris Eclair Company. Charles Krauss and Josette Andriot have the leads. There is an abundance of action, although the director does not at all times pay heed to the probabilities. A wife in France, reading of a necklace adorning a statue in India, decided she must have it and that her husband must secure it. He steals the jewels. Before getting away from the locality he is detected, but, nevertheless, permitted to escape. Two persons confined in the hold of a ship unaccountably obtain possession of mallet and chisel and cut their way out of the hold, apparently near the bottom of the ship. When the two dive off it is from a point well up on the side. An Indian girl, without hesitation, writes a note in the language of the European country. She appears inside a mansion, but her mode of egress must be guessed at. There are titles that are necessary. The photography throughout is good; at one point, a pursuit in the water, is remarkable. There are thrilling incidents, one of the more notable being the capture of the two foreigners by the opening of a trap and dropping them, caged, into the oubliette. - The Moving Picture World, November 29, 1913