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Leo Delaney is a burglar. When he breaks into the house of a wealthy lawyer, he realizes it is the home of his brother, Maurice Costello, from whom he has been estranged since their mother's death. He makes friends with his his nieces (played by Costello's daughters, Dolores and Helene) and drives off his partner. When Delaney is arrested for his partner's death...

While there are some fine scenes in this Vitagraph short subject, there is a crying need for sound in this one; Costello defends his brother in court, giving a speech that lasts nearly a minute. This, however, is a silent movie, and there is no way for someone who cannot read lips to tell what he is saying. That lack is very telling and makes this silent movie suffer thereby.

A melodramatic story of two brothers. Their ways parted at college where Tom was expelled for hazing while Dick graduated with honor. At their parting Dick gave Tom a locket with their mother's portrait in it and this was the means of identification when fate brought them together again after many years. Tom, who had sunk to the underworld, had accidentally killed a man who was attempting to rob him of this cherished locket. Dick, who had become a great lawyer, was assigned by the judge to plead Tom's case and the locket was handed to him. His plea wins and his brother is acquitted. The picture is competently made, well acted and photographed and is pleasing. It has many good qualities but no special strength. Mr. Costello plays Dick, and Mr. Delaney plays Tom. The rather close resemblance between their profiles makes them convincingly brothers. One very minor part, the nurse of Dick's children, was played with very commendable naturalness, we do not know by whom. The picture is a first-class program filler. - The Moving Picture World, January 27, 1912