As the twig is bent the tree inclines. The two boys whose characters are unmistakably shown in the earlier scenes of this striking picture, develop into men of decidedly differing natures. When a girl comes into the life of each, bringing to the one a new nobility, to the other a baser impulse, the conflict of their natures, which has been so long in developing, at last reaches a climax that is staged and acted with consummate art.
