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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13306, 12 October 1906, Page 4

NEW DOMESTIC STORY! ! CONTAINING BOTH SENSATION AND MYSTERY. IT IS ENTITLED THE DUCHESS OF PONTIFEX GARDENS, AND IS FROM THE PEN OP THE WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR G. W. APPLETON, Author of " A Forgotten Past," " A Fool and His Folly," " A Tragedy of Error," etc., etc. .IT IS TIMED TO COMMENCE FIRST SERIAL PUBLICATION IN THE COLUMNS OF THE , TU'EW r/EALAND TTERALD rpO-MORROW, SATURDAY, QCTOBER "JO We have pleasure in introducing to our readers another story from the pen of one of onr popular writers of fiction—Mr. G.W. Appleton. In the present instance we are plunged at once into the element of mystery. Dr. Julius Perigord relates tho narrative himself. When locking up his surgery one winter's night. ho is called by a very ordinary girl to a house in Pontiles Gardens, where an old Italian lady, the Duohessa di Frangipani, has taken up her quarters and hidden herself away from her 'enemiesmembers of her family. She has heard of the name of Perigord, and by feigning illhealth manages to obtain a. visit from this medical man. He soon becomes her confidant, and when he leaves her presence he is in possession of some family documents, on which the principal enemy is trying to lay Ilia hands, and a sum of money. He informs Mr. Minims, the head of the household at No. 19, that the duchess is obliged to leave suddenly, and gives him more than an equivalent for the notice in gold. That night the duchess is spirited away, but how, when, or whither it is impossible to say. A cat is the accidental means of this mystery being solved, hut greater problems lodm before Dr. Perigord. In his boyhood he had heard the name of Frangipani uttered in connection with' his father, who was assassinated in Home. When the doctor visits his mother, to learn about the facts of the case and the way in which the Perigords are mixed up with the Frnngipanis, he finds her singularly reticent. She warns him against the duchess, but refuses to divulge any information or to give him satisfactory answers. .He leaves her and goes up to London again. Then- he confides in his friend, Dick Molyneux, that he has got mixed up with a duchess, and takes him into his confidence. After this Minims turns up and tells the doctor of a clever contrivance which has been got up to steal away the duchess' things—which, of course, were left behind. But Minims was too sharp for them Then there is another surprise for the doctor, and another duchess. This lady is also the Duchessa di Frangipani. She is young' and beautiful, and. although cosmopolitan in both manners and conversation, still shows her American training. After this the plot thickens, and exciting | complications arise. I ! READ THE DUCHESS OF PONTIFEX GARDENS, ' BY G. W. APPLETON. IT WILL COMMENCE IN THE COLUMNS OF THE MEW yE ALAND TTERALD npO-MOEROV,'. SATURDAY, QCTOBER 1 Q i ——————————————————————————— ■ !■■•■■ : '.*'; DO YOU SUFFER FROM • T3HEUMATISM. i Q.OUT. • T7TDNEYS, T\YSPEPSIAf PURIEI NATURAL MINERAL MATER. A PINT OF FURIRI ON RISING GIVES RELIEF. SIR ROBERT STOUT (Chief Justice) says:— "TO ANYONE HAVING A TENDENCY TO GOUT I CONSIDER IT INVALUABLE." SO WILL YOU. . OUR GUARANTEE. pOME OR WRITE TO US FOR A COPY OF V-> THE WRITTEN GUARANTEE WE ARE GIVING WITH OUR TEETH. QETS FROM 09 OS, LONDON DENTAL INSTITUTE, ENDEAN'S BUILDINGS. NEXT RAILWAY *> STATION, }