The play of “The Girl I Left Behind Me” is among the best with which Belasco has been concerned and likewise one of the best that have been contributed to American dramatic literature. Its superiority to all the problematic, polemic, didactic, sociologic disquisitions, pretending to be plays, which have, of late years, so cluttered our Stage, is very great. The story is clear, direct, animated, sympathetic, and thrilling. The persons introduced are various, natural, interesting, discriminated, and finely drawn. The greater part of the dialogue is terse and characteristic. The scene is laid in the country of the Blackfoot Sioux, in Montana, chiefly at a remote and lonely outlying United States Army Post; otherwise at Fort Assiniboine. The chief characters are _Scar-Brow_, an Indian Chief, who has been educated in civilization and bears the name of _John Ledru_, but whom education has only made more bitter and revengeful, and who has rejoined his malignant tribe; _General Kennion_, a veteran of the United States Army, in command of the district in which he is stationed; _Lieutenant Edgar Hawksworth_, _Lieutenant Morton Parlow_, and _Kate Kennion_, the _General’s_ daughter. _Hawksworth_ is a gentleman and a gallant soldier. _Parlow_ is a specious rascal, as yet undetected. _Kate Kennion_, though she loves _Hawksworth_, has promised to marry _Parlow_,--this being an inscrutable incongruity of the plot. _Parlow_ has, much earlier, seduced and abandoned the wife of a brother officer, _Major Burleigh_ by name,--under whose command he is now enrolled,--but who has long vainly sought to ascertain the identity of his wronger.