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The Year in Pictures

Ned Benton decides to try his luck in the west. His aged mother is persuaded to place a mortgage upon their little home so that her son may get money to go west. Ned meets with little success in the west. One day he leaves his claim and goes on to the rude frontier town, where he meets many friends. They wind up at the bar. In the same room are several frame gambling tables. The man in charge of the games, although crooked, has never been found out. His daughter is forced to give him help in his calling. The bartender gives Ned a letter he has been holding for him. It is from his mother and informs him, that unless he can send her $500, she will be forced to let their home go to satisfy the demands of the deacon's mortgage. Ned realizes he has not this amount in gold dust and is thoroughly disheartened. As a final resort he is tempted to gamble at the girl's table. He, of course, loses and is more disheartened than ever. He joins his friends at the bar, and they charitably allow him to drink himself into insensibility, not, however, before he has learned that the girl and her father are suspected of being the cleverest cheats in the business, although the charge has not been proven. The girl feels sorry for the man she has fleeced, but sees no other way. Suddenly, looking upon the floor, she sees the letter Ned dropped. She reads it, and her heart is awakened to a deeper pity than it has ever known before. Without a word to her father she leaves the gambling hall. On her way to their shack, she comes across Ned in a drunken stupor. She conducts him to her little cabin. When he has sunk into troubled slumber, she quietly leaves, and going to the telegraph office sends by telegraph all the gold she has to Ned's mother. Returning to the cabin, she sits beside him until morning. When he awakens, all the anger in his nature is aroused at sight of her, and denouncing her as a cheat and a thief, he leaves the place. Ned returns to his friends at the saloon. He is about to begin drinking again, when a boy from the telegraph office enters and hands him a telegram from his mother, thanking him for the $1,000 received. He questions his friend, whom he suspects of having sent the money, but the latter denies entirely, having anything to do with it. The gambler calls at his daughter's shack and demands her winnings of the night before. She tells him she lost the sack containing her dust and nuggets. He does not believe her and a violent quarrel follows. Ned, passing by outside, overhears the quarrel and saves the girl from the man's anger. Things are explained and Ned realizes what a sacrifice the girl has made. Further up the street the miners have held an important indignation meeting and decided to drive the gambler, who, they are convinced is a cheat, from town. He is forced to obey their commands and flees into the desert. Back in the rude cabin, Ned and the girl come to an understanding.

A western number featuring Sydney Ayres and Doris Pawn. The girl uses her wits to raise money to send to the mother of the man she loves. The story is somewhat conventional, but better pictured than usual and a little above the average in merit. - The Moving Picture World, May 15, 1915

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