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Mark Stetson, a scheming politician, entangles the Brandons, husband and wife, and their friend, Antoinette, in his smuggling schemes and engineers their arrest, to protect himself. Edited into Shadows of the Past (1919).
Top billed cast
Anita StewartAntoinette
Harry T. MoreyBrandon
Rose TapleyMrs. Brandon
L. Rogers LyttonMark Stetson
Julia Swayne GordonHelene
E.K. LincolnHadden
Mildred Harris
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