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When Roberta Carruthers' father, Capt. Carruthers, is killed in France during the war, she comes to live in the US with her uncle. When she finds out that her uncle is under the impression that his brother had a son and not a daughter, she decides to disguise herself as a male, and calls herself Bob.
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Gail Kane, Norman Trevor, Roy Applegate, Walter Hiers, W.W. Crimans, Duncan McRae, Henry Sedley, Corene Uzzell, Walter Downing, Mildred Marsh
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