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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 170, 19 July 1924, Page 11

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"THE MARKED MAN." 7 By WILLIAM LE QUEUX. (World-famous Novelist.) NOTE. i flThh is the finest Le Queux story it has ever besot oar : fortune to handle. Long ago Mr. Le Queux earned for himself the title—"The Master of Mystery." This title is abundantly justified by the present story, which is "brimful of mystery from start to finish. . j '■>■ \ J THE STORY. I , *-?* The story opens with Eric Easton important papers belonging to • and Audrey Bentham—two lovers Canadian millionaire for whom n* " listening-in " upon an experimental acts as secretary, axe stolen. The wireless set. They hear a woman's only person who knew he had the voice calling through the unknown papers was Audrey. The reader to someone whose call-name is suspects her, for there seems to be "Eschecar," warning him not to act no one else who could have given because danger is afoot. There is no away the secret. reply front "Eschecar," and theddi- c , T . • tracted woman begs other wireless r Sensational development, ensue, users to repeat her warning. Eric E™ _ has lo.t the papers and i. Easton eventually gets in touch with frantlc - Audreys knows something -Eschecar," who acknowledges the f* *« truth, but .ay, nothing. Is her warning. Beyond this the affair is a kn ™l=dge a guilty one ? mystery.. He does not see that Eric loves her. but does not susAudrey is disturbed by the incident, pect—until the fact of the photoand that she obviously knows the graph is revealed. voices of the mysterious pair. Then I Shortly after this a man is found He suspects everyone in turn - dying by the roadside, and to the including His friend Maddox and a doctor who attends him he whispers girl Leonie two important charac-. the word "Eschecar." In his pocket ters in the story. is found a photograph of Audrey, XL . . . , much to the reader's amazement. The excitement rises to fever heat —the love interest being very strong "Eechecar" whose real name is throughout. Eric loves Audrey and Victor Vaughan has been murdered cannot bring himself to believe that by a peculiar poison, but this is not she has had a hand in robbing him discovered at the inquest, -where a of the papers. verdict of death from natural causes Finally h= tackles her in a striking » returned. scene _ Audrey bursts into tears an | The drama then goes ■on from declares that she cannot tell him the mystery to myetery, with a host of truth. exciting episodes. With his accus- What the truth is, and how it is tomed skill Mr. Le Queux links up finally exposed, contribute to make this episode with Eric Easton, and on 'The Marked Man" the best Le the night of the man's death Eric's Queux serial it has ever been our room is broken into and some fortune to handle. READ AND FIND OUT. Zjs' "THE MARKED MAN.' , / ..< JULY 26—FIRST CHAPTERS—JULY 26, }