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Harry Mathews and Ed Salter are going on a hunting expedition in Northern Canada, and receive a jolly send-off by the boys and girls of their set. Frank Wardour and his sweetheart, Grace Thornton, are among the bunch and there is considerable kissing all around. Grace gets jealous and in a little lovers spat, tells Frank she wants no more of him, and he in return, tells her "All right," he will go with the other boys on the hunting trip. As he is boarding the boat he receives n note from Grace which tells him if he will bring back to her the skin of a silver fox she will renew the engagement and promise to be his wife. The hunting is taken up in earnest and one day the party separated. Ed and Barry going one way and Frank another. Fortune favors the latter and he traps a fine silver fox. He carries it to the hut and dresses the skin which is to win his sweetheart back. A few days later an Indian prowling around sneaks into the hut and steals the skin. Frank seeing the foot-prints of ...

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    • Author: Shaktizragore
    Silver fox carries a very valuable skin. It isn't a species; but a kind, like genius among men. One is born into a family of grey foxes now and then, and is usually cleverer and stronger than his brothers and sisters. The ease with which the fox in this story was captured doesn't strongly convince; but that doesn't harm the story very much. It is a love story with Miss Ormi Hawley as the society girl who promises her suitor that she will wed him, if he'll get her a silver fox. He didn't have any difficulty getting it; but in keeping it he became terribly frost-bitten and disfigured. An Indian tried to steal it from him. The story has little that is truly fresh and drags, especially at its artificial times. The photographs are good. It's a good filler. - The Moving Picture World, March 30, 1912
  • Cast overview:
    Ormi Hawley Ormi Hawley - Grace Thornton
    Harry Myers Harry Myers - The Half Breed Indian
    Nancy Gale Nancy Gale - The Indian Woman
    Charles Arthur Charles Arthur - Frank Wardour - the Rejected Sweetheart
    Howard M. Mitchell Howard M. Mitchell - The New Sweetheart
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