In a cabin is a lonely wife, her husband seeking gold. A stranger, ill, is brought to the cabin by the husband. Days are no longer lonely for the wife. The stranger pictures to the wife the awful loneliness of her life, and in a moment of weakness she consents to go away with him. The husband returns. At the point of the pistol the stranger is bound hand and foot to a cactus, and left to death on the desert. To the stranger's breast the husband fastens a note, denying the existence of God. The wife, unable to stand the strain, leaves a note upon the table, begging her husband not to let their child, soon to be born, have a murderer for a father, and goes into the desert. The husband returns, finds the note, and starts to trace his wife's footsteps. Prospectors rescue the stranger, and write across the words, "There is no God," their own message: "We have saved you from becoming a murderer, there is a God," leaving the note on the cactus. The husband finds his wife and forgives her. Across the desert the husband rides madly to the cactus, finds the stranger gone, reads the note and sinks on his knees in prayer.

Source: The Moving Picture World, March 8, 1913

There are fine views in this drama of the Mojave Desert, California, The photography is excellent. These combine to put the picture over, there being nothing new in the story.

Source: The Moving Picture World, March 8, 1913