'ILL-GOTTEN GAINS’
There are two admirable characters in ‘ 111-gotten Gains,’ some that are not so likeable, and some who. are really bad; a judicious assortment, which enables the author (E. W. Sair) to turn out a very readable story of India. Trouble starts when a scheming mother and daughter, resenting disinheritance in favour of a step-daughter, concoct a false will and obtain to it the signature of the dying, and almost unconscious, husband, not knowing that another and entirely different will had just previously been made. The means taken to secure and destroy the genuine will bring terrible retribution to a native blackmailer and agony of mind and other misfortunes to the conspirers. Through it all one daughter stands firm and true, and deserves a better fate than to be superseded in the affections
of a manly and devoted missionary by the sophisticated and vivacious stepsister. But life is often like that. Our copy is from Messrs Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd.
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Evening Star, Issue 23041, 20 August 1938, Page 23
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