A MERCIFUL RELEASE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 5

A MERCIFUL RELEASE

We havfe pleasure in presenting to our readers a new and exceedingly readable serial by Miss L*. G. Moberly. “Love Set Free” opens with a prologue which presents us with a scene only too common between Dr. Lash wood and his lovely, ,but somewhat soulless, young wife. Readers’ sympathies will flow toward the doctor, whose energies are alwaysdirected to finding a bond of union between himself and his gay, irresponsible wife. In his present endeavour he fails, as he has always done. There is no reconciliation. But the tie is soon to be broken in a sudden, unexpected manner In the Bramstone theatre a fire breaks out, and panic ensues. In the mel6e two figures stand out. First a girl, in the front row of the upper circle, Judith Merivale. The second figure is that of a man. Amidst the roar of the flames these two survey the pandemonium, until Dr. Lashwood sees his opportunity and conveys Judith to an open window, whence she Is lifted down on a fire-escape. Much later he, with clothes singed and torn, finds himself outside the theatre in an alley. He takes refuge in a house nearby, and loses consciousness. Much later he learns that Lr. Dashwood’s corpse has been found in the theatre. Release has come. But it is only a beginning of mysteries and complications. “LOVE SET FREE” Will begin in our columns TOMORROW