Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his accomplice, the ape.
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Eileen Sedgwick as Betty
Milton Sills as The Flea
Joe Martin as The Ape
Ralph McComas as Detective Duffer
United States 12 June 1917
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