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The gambler's influence kept Jack from making an honest living in the first place. Jack had run away from the farm because of his father's harshness. Jack's sweetheart in the home village was very pretty. While Jack was gambling he forgot to write to Elsie; but when his last penny was gone, he remembered. His letter led her to think that he had made a good beginning and, as she had some money, she determined to go to him rather than wait till he could make enough to send for her. Meanwhile Jack being "broke" is preparing to hold up the stage. Elsie arrives and the gambler takes her to Jack's room. There he finds evidence that tells him what Jack is about to do. He hurries and comes to the pass in time to keep Jack from committing the crime. Then he starts him and Elsie on the road to happiness. The picture is interesting; there is sufficient freshness in it and the players are pleasing. Its chief virtue is that it is wholly romantic and not a picture of life, but a rest from life's realities. - The Moving Picture World, October 28, 1911