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A Western story which contains much of human nature, which in one who is weak asserts itself in treachery. The story centers around a girl who is loved by two pals, but when they both propose and she accepts one the other cannot refrain from taking advantage and making his pal appear like the rejected one. Then comes a prospecting journey into the desert by the disappointed suitor and a wedding of the others. But even as murder will out so this treachery haunts the perpetrator so seriously that he tells his new wife and she, burning with indignation, sends him out into the desert to find the wronged man. Then come Indian fights, and ultimately the wronged man is rescued and returns to civilization, but the treacherous pal pays the penalty of his misdeeds with his life. Perhaps if there had not been so many Western pictures with mix-ups in love affairs this would be a very attractive film, but inasmuch as it is only one in a long train it is not particularly exciting. Whether the field is worked out, or whether producers have grown somewhat careless, the Western pictures have a certain degree of sameness and monotony which is fatal to sustained interest. This is no worse than the bulk of them. There is nothing about it which stamps it as being much better. The acting of the Essanay company is always good and their deportment does not suffer here; but the man who has little to do can't be expected to accomplish really great things in any line. It holds good in acting for motion pictures quite as forcibly as in any other thing. - The Moving Picture World, November 5, 1910