[1][2][3] Arnold Daly plays the part of Ashton Kirk, a wealthy and scholarly young man who solves mysteries that have the police puzzled.

The air of mystery is preserved throughout, leading up to a climax in the unraveling of the murder; and the plot, which commenced with a secret treaty between the United States and Russia, stolen long ago on a battlefield of the Russian-Japanese war, is rationally carried out to the end, despite a tendency toward heroics".

[5] The Moving Picture World wrote "the cast is remarkably well balanced and the story holds the interest from start to finish.

Mr. Daly plays the part of "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator," and he is ably supported by Sheldon Lewis, Louise Rutter, Doris Mitchell, Charles Laite, Martin Sabine and William Harrigan".

[6] In another review from The Moving Picture World, Margaret MacDonald wrote the film is a "highly colored melodrama produced in the best style of the screen is this thrilling adventure of Ashton-Kirk, Investigator.

The story of the effort of the son of Count Drevenoff to gain possession of a copy of a treaty of the Russian Government with the United States, which had been taken from his father at the time of his death, is mysterious, thrilling and artistic.