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Rose Ranson, daughter of Robert Ranson, a wealthy ranch owner, is starting on a ride to meet Hal Blake, the man she loves. Mexican Pete, a gambler, offers to escort her. Refusing and ignoring his offer, she rides away. Robert Ranson appears and Pete suggests a friendly game of poker. During the game the Mexican has the better luck of the two, winning $20,000. Ranson, growing desperate, writes upon a card: "I. O. U. my ranch, stock and all against your $20,000." Mexican Pete consents to make the gamble. While the dealing of the cards takes place, Pete takes two cards from his sleeve, substituting them for the cards he had drawn, winning the "pot." Red Eye, an Indian, is the only one in the room who has seen the Mexican's trick, but he does not say anything about it at the time. The next day Mexican Pete comes to Hanson proposing to return the "I. O. U." in exchange for the hand of his daughter in marriage. Ranson weakly resents the proposition, but Rose decides to sacrifice herself to ...

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    • Author: Maveri
    A picture containing some romance and a good deal of illuminating explanation of the way gamblers play cards. It involves a love story, too, in which a girl sacrifices herself to save her father's honor, or what is assumed in the code of the gambler to be honor. But the gambler's trickery is discovered and the wedding is stopped, while the lovers are united and the gambler is banished in the vigorous fashion usually adopted by cowboys under such circumstances. The picture contains much that is interesting in its scenery, its acting and its suggestion. Its photography is clear in most of the scenes, though in some it is a trifle weak. As a whole, however, it is a creditable piece of work, melodramatic, perhaps, but alive and emotional. - The Moving Picture World, March 5, 1910
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