A STORY OF GREAT POWER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 2

A STORY OF GREAT POWER.

I Wo request a perusal of the opening j instalment of the extremely captivating story we are to begin in SATURDAY'S issue. It bears the expressive title of ' A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE." By SIDNEY WARWICK, Author of "In Name Only," "The Knave of Diamond 4 -'' "Leffert's Dilemma," "A Perilous Tryst," etc. The incidents are so vividly pourtrayed that a sensKi of reality pervades the reader. They clearly show how tragic events may naturally arise front trilling causes. An engaged couple differ upon, an unimportant theme, then pride and stubbornness aggravate the dispute until iit becomes so serious that a rupture lof the engagement is the result. Olive | Kernham deeply regrets tbe quarrel, and .as her lover angrily strides away, she i looks back, expecting that he will return. • But stubbornness was ever dominant in j the nature of Dennis Garth, and there was no relenting on his part, I With aching heart Olive turns homeward, but ere she has gone many yards ' she becomes { AN UNEXPECTED WITNESS jof a tragedy. To protect the suspected man, not that she admires him, but with the sole desire to befriend his mother, then an almost hopeless invalid, by keeping from her the distressing intelligence that her son in accused of a crime, she consents tv . A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, and bec-onips Ailwyii Trent's bride, imI polled to do so by the knowledge that a iwife cannot be legally required to give evidence against her husband, j The bridal ceremony is hardly over pro ; Olive is prostrated with the appalling I information that a network of suspicious I circumstances has eneloudod the man she | really loves, and that he is suspected of j the murder. She begs her husband to step forward as • man of honour, and tell I the truth, regardless of his own safety. | This he refueses to do, on various pre- | texts. Tbe result is that she despises the .coward whose wife she has unfortunately ! become. Various complications ensue, and the reader is constantly surprised and delighted with the drift of this really onthralling romance. The first instalment will appear on. SATURDAY, and ba. thereafter con-1 tinued bi-weekly. i