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A two-part special picture that makes a fair offering. The situation has an appealing sentiment, but the story, although the climax is very good, fails to convince and is a bit too conventional. It was not really good enough for a two-part offering, but might have been a big picture in a thousand feet. It shows us how a child recalls old memories (a love story), to a drunken blacksmith and, without rubbing in his determination not to drink any more or making it sentimental, it clearly shows that he is trying to reform. Tempted beyond his strength, he is one night about to take the child's ring to buy liquor when he discovers that it is one he made for the sweetheart of his youth and so knows that it is her orphan child he has taken in and is caring for. This strengthens him and we have a happy ending. Arthur Johnson plays the blacksmith and Lottie Briscoe the mother of the child. The child was not a very happy choice for this picture; there wasn't enough life in her as an actress. - The Moving Picture World, September 20, 1913