A Mexican, or perhaps Spanish, story of a hunchback painter. In the opening we find him a ragged waif, whom a friar is teaching to paint. He does the portrait of a beautiful girl, the sweetheart of a roue who sees him with the painting and throws the girl over. The painter adopts the daughter, when the girl dies, and twenty years pass. The grown daughter looks like the mother, and the roue, now an old man, comes upon her in a park and follows her to the painter's home, where he falls dead. The story is a good deal better than this outline, but there is all through the film a flatness that keeps it from interesting; it seems somewhat cheap. The acting, with the exception of the padre (Thomas Santschi) and the girl (Bessie Eyton), is not natural. The photography lacks quality. Colin Campbell produced it from the script of Lanier Bartlett. - The Moving Picture World, April 19, 1913
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