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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.
Cast
William Courtenay, Lilian Greuze, Frank Belcher, Dora Mills Adams, William Raymond
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