Desc: Shadows of the Past: Directed by Ralph Ince. With Anita Stewart, Harry T. Morey, Rose Tapley, L. Rogers Lytton. Mark Stetson, an unscrupulous politician, snares Brandon, his wife and their friend Antoinette in a smuggling racket and then, to protect himself, engineers their arrest. After their release from jail, the trio vows to make good. Brandon eventually lands a trusted post at an insurance company and Antoinette, who lives with the couple, becomes both secretary and sweetheart to Haddon, a popular gubernatorial candidate. Shortly afterwards, Stetson, an acquaintance of Haddon, sees Antoinette in Haddon's office and follows her to the Brandon home. Stetson, who has been offered ten thousand dollars by Haddon's political rivals to ruin his campaign, repeatedly threatens to expose Brandon's past and, under the pressure, Brandon finally agrees to help Stetson by "finding" Haddon with Mrs. Brandon at a café and then publicly denouncing him. On the prescribed day, with more threats of exposure, Stetson succeeds in trapping Antoinette in his accomplice's house. Apprised of the set-up, however, Antoinette escapes by a clever ruse and heads in a car for the café. Stetson and his accomplice pursue her closely but are killed by a train at a railroad crossing. Arriving at the café before Brandon, Antoinette foils the plot and then confesses her past to Haddon, who happily forgives her.