SPLENDID NEW SERIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 8

SPLENDID NEW SERIAL.

"WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?" Betty Hardacre, B.Sc., trained in secretarial work, sets out to fulfil a holiday engagement as secretary to the eminent scientist, Sir William Hopo Sandling. For tlio purpose of experimenting with marsh gas, he has hidden his identity in a lonely farmhouse on tlio Yorkshire moors. She comes with strong recommendation to fulfil her two months' holiday engagement., and on her way the first unusual happening occurs. A young man of striking personality— Robert Mannering by name—commandeers her two-seater, in order to get into speedy touch with the police. She receives" a shock when she learns from this young man that Sir William has been murdered. Her services are requisitioned by the police for the setting in order of Sir William's chemical formulas and other writings. Mannering is sent to London by Scotland Yard detectives, Winter and Furneaux, to watch Sir William's enemies at work there. Betty feels the loss of him, for Robert lias come into her life. The sequel is to he found in "What Would You Ha've Done ?" The first instalment will appear in the New Zealand Herald Supplement today, and further instalments will be published daily.