When Richard Cameron, a secret service agent tracking down international spies, is kidnapped by the enemy, Mirian Somerset, to whom Richard has been surreptitiously married, believes that he is dead.
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William Courtenay as Richard Cameron
Lilian Greuze as Marian Somerset
Frank Belcher as Charles Van Horn
Dora Mills Adams as Mrs. Somerset
William Raymond as Page Somerset
United States 13 May 1917
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