A satisfying melodramatic story with no special idea. The situation is this: Alma has become of age. Her guardian, general manager of the railroad, wants her to let him handle her stock in the road, but she refuses this. Her distrust is vindicated by his actions, for he attempts to force her to do it. She runs away. Her champion, who helped her, and kept her guardian from overtaking her, is a locomotive engineer; we know him to be the son of the road's president learning the business. She later invites him to a dance; her guardian also is invited. In a beautiful conservatory both propose, very melodramatically, delightfully so. They return to the ballroom and there, in a scene that in itself is as pretty as anything of its kind that the Vitagraph Company has turned out in many a day, she learns that her champion is the president's son. The scene in the first act where she hides from her pursuing guardian at the railroad station is also highly commendable. Its photographs are very pretty. It tells a speedy, clear story. The audience seemed to like it. - The Moving Picture World, January 27, 1912
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