The quiet life style of Ruth Heck and her brother Lem, who belong to a religious sect called the Seekers, is disrupted when a judge imprisons Lem for a crime he did not commit.
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Flora Parker DeHaven as Ruth Heck
Charles Hill Mailes as Reverend Israel Mount (as Charles Mailes)
Edward Hearn as John Mount
Edwin B. Tilton as Undetermined Role (as Edwin Booth)
Florence Noar as Undetermined Role
Countess Du Cello as Undetermined Role (as Mary DuCello)
Paul Byron as Lem Heck
United States 17 July 1916
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