Geraldine Farleigh, a timid village schoolteacher, supports her family and must pay off her late father's debt to Bruce Cartwright.
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Bessie Love
Geraldine Farleigh
Dorothea Wolbert
Mrs. Farleigh
Wallace MacDonald
Bruce Cartwright
Frank Hayes
Oliver Brown
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