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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 6

SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. OUR NEW SERIAL. POWERFUL STORY BY A POPULAR NOVELIST. "A FRONT OF BRASS." Bv PEED M. WHITE, Author of "The Crimson Blind," "Blackmail," "The Cardinal Moth," "Craven Fortune," " Trojarthcn's Wife," " The Robo of Lucifer," etc., etc. On Saturday next we commence the publication of this striking story in weekly instalments. Tiio 11 unie of. Mr Fred. M. White has come .rapidly to the front in latter years as ii writer of first-class fiction in newsl>a.por and magazine throughout the lintr-lah-speaking world. In " A Front of Brass" lie gives our readers of his host. It is a drama of modern businecs life with a strain of that undying romance without winch no narrative, however interesting, can touch or affect the human heart. Our readers will find, too, in Mr White's latest story a gallery of fine characters, a virile and strenuous .hero, a heroine of individuality and charm, and a villain who plays the' fool, but who is in real it}' a man of almost Mcphistophelian ingenuity and cunning. With such a caiste and the author's well-known" faculty for dTj.matic presentation, our rondeis will expect an nncom* monly good story, and wo venture to predict that they will bo satisfied. Hubert Grant is junior partner in the firm of Spencer, Grant, and S«irsda!e. Ho leaves all the financial details of their hugo business to Paul Spenocr, iiio senior partand trusts Jam implicitly. Grunt has just "bought Ledge Point, Spencer's beautiful liouso ail tlto cliffs, and confides to his seiTtor that ho is (so far secretly) engaged to .Alny Leverton, daughter of Sir Bruce Leverton, a local magnate. Spejicor smiles a eimsfcor smile, and reminds Grant not only that his father once did Leverton a bad turn, but also tlwt there is bad feelins; between the baronet and their firm. Spencer.is called away by a telegram, which leaves him much psrturfced. Ho G j anfc to loolc out for llim tllat if 'he does not return to the house. No sooner lias Spencer left tha.n a visitor calls £ wr anc * Grant is astonished to tad that the caller is no other than May Laverton. Sho is confCiScd on seeing hoc fiance, and evades his eager questions. She tolls him, however, that Spcnocr, his partner, is a bad man. Later on the same night Jemrer, the butler, gives ihe alarm that there is a burglar in the library, and that the _ biingla-r is a woman. They nish to tH» library, the lady burglar strikes a light, and Grairfc recognises her. Quick as thought lie knocks the butler down and stuns him. Then switching on the light, ho asks May Leverton—for it is no other— what she is doing there. She is start-led and distressed, and tells him that the secret is not' her own. This docs not complete the tale of the amazing events of the story or even of that one eventful night. The a-oc-earancc of the audacious Mr John Smith, of London, and the traffic death-.and disappearance of Paul Spencer, all form part of the tangled web which the author so skilfuly weaves, and anon unravels for the entertainment atid delectation of .his many readers. In"A Front of Brass" the reader is not asked simply to dabble in tKe shallows of coincidence. Mr F. M. White in his latest novel takes his readers out into the deep waters of real life. This, his latent, story will, we are convinced, bo generally admitted 1 to be an impressive and absorbing piece of fiction. / . REMOVAL NOTICE. Mr A. E. BOOT, Surgeon Dentist, has REMOVED to 63 PRINCES STREET (opposite Bible and Tract Depot). OTAGO WITNESS.—New Stories. A largo Amount of Beading Matter. Price 6d.