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Girls have heretofore offered themselves as sacrifices in distasteful marriages to save their fathers from being turned out of their homes when mortgages fall due, but the exciting incidents connected with this story are seldom present. The feature of this film is a bomb explosion. The audience sees its fuse sputtering and feels as though but a little more would scare it half to death. The preferred lover, cad-like, tells the girl on her way to the altar to marry the banker, that he is going to commit suicide. She decides to die with him. She finds him with the bomb; he hasn't lighted it. She lights it and its fuse sputters. The cad is scared and runs away. The rich banker finds the girl gone and hurries to find her. He dares throw the bomb out of the window. Thus the two men are weighed. The poor one proves a cad; the rich one a hero. It ends with the wedding march. It is well acted and the photography is clear despite the difficulty of some portions of the subject. - The Moving Picture World, May 6, 1911