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We are not told who is the author of this two-reel subject, but we are bound to say that the writer was trying harder to make a picture than he was to create entertainment. Entertainment it is not. Good acting and fine natural backgrounds are present; Francis Bushman has the lead, but even he cannot overcome the handicap imposed upon him. The story is of a girl washed ashore from a wreck. She is taken into the home of a man and woman, and their son falls in love with her. She is always pushing everyone away from her. She shrinks from them as if she were afraid she would convey to them some dread disease. We find a little later that she has leprosy, an affliction with which a mighty few persons in any state know anything about. The upshot is that when the young man leaves his home to go with her she leaves him asleep at the foot of a tree and jumps over a cliff. He sees her leap and follows her. The final scene is of the two at the foot, the woman dead, the man dying. - The Moving Picture World, January 3, 1914