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Evening Star, Issue 12398, 11 January 1905, Page 2

A SENSATIONAL AND UP-TO-DATE ABSORBING INTEREST. FOR HEART OR CONSCIENCE?- ' By GEORGB GRIFFITH, Author of ' A Woman Against the World,' ' The World Masters,' 'An Angel of the Revolution,' 'the Jutsice of Revenge,' . eto., etc. WILL COMMENCE PUBLICATION IN OUR COLUMNS On . < WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18. r In this his latest novel Mr George Griffith grapples with modern problems, and portrays -with vividness and skill some of tie most dramatic episodes for which a parallel can be found in this somewhat prosaic everyday existence of ours. That speculators, company promoters, and gamblers in stocks and shares appear to' have their own code oi morality the author makes clear, as also the fact that they sometimes endeavor to procure a scapegrace for their own misdeeds. Sucii 13 tho case in the indictment of Lord Overbury, a too-confiding' nobleman, who, thanks to tho efforts of Kenneth Markham, is uri conditionally acquitted. This young barrister, who will not accept a brief until he is convinced of the merits of the case, is a fino character —one of Nature's noblemen. His father is rained by the machinations ot an unscrupulous syndicate of company-pro-moters. Prostrated on his deathbed, the old man dictates a will enacting that the whole of his private fortune should be distributed amongst the poor shareholders of his companies. Before he can append his signature, however, he is called away. Nevertheless, Kenneth (the act is characteristic of the man) seconded by his mother and sister, decides that the unsigned will shall be given effect to, and the family honor vindicated even at the cost of impoverishment. Thie almost quixotically honest course of action effectually baffles the cabal of shady financiers, who, not content with, procuring the ruin of Markham, meditate designs on his privato fortune. For this purpose Ashford, one of their number, has been compelled to forge certain underwriting policies in the name of the dead man. The chance meeting of Mrs Lilias Elsley and her former lover f ArHiur Bvcreloy, In the city, becomee, in the light of after-events, fraught with much significance in its effect on the course of the narrative. His renewed infatuation for the young and charming widow is apparently, reciprocated—so much so, in fact, that she agrees to nurse him back to health. A sinister light is thrown on her motives, however, by "her methods of nursing. Nor does she appear to realise the real enormity of her conduct until her slumbering moral faculties are rpuesd by her newly-born passion for Kenneth Markham. Does the young lawyer fall a prey to tho wiles of this fascinating Delilah, or. "does he remain true to his first brown-baired and. brown-eyed sweetheart, Mercia" Reynold? The result of the contest between loyo, arid duty—heart and conscience, on Kenneth's part, we must leave the reader, to gather front the author's story. In conclusion, we may say that 'For Heart or Conscience?' is a story on essentially modern, lines, thrilling, dramatic, and forceful, arid is brought to' a strong! arid felicitous conclusion. Public Notices. An eight-hour day is too long—washing. You can do it in less with Sunlight Soap. m 2/- per,lfc (&^m.) ALL G^OoMi. BARNARD & SON.