"THE SILVER DAGGER."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 145, 25 July 1914, Page 8

"THE SILVER DAGGER ."

THE SUN'S NEW SERIAL

MASTERPIECE OF MYSTERY. One of the features of THE SUN since its inception has teen the high standard of its day-by day serials. The large majority of our readers who have been interested in the story now drawing to a close in our columns will find in the-new serial, "The Silver Dagger," which begins next Saturday, something superior in the matter of clean sensation." The author, Mr E. A. J. Walling, has exceeded his previous best in this performance. Take the opening circumstances:—'/ Martin Torfrey, of the Villa Zamora, in proposes to Margaret Hayland, of Haylands. and is accepted. Martin is sitting alone in his library the same night, when he hears screams. He goes out —and meets Polly, Lucy's maid, who is nearly frantic" with terror. ' Oh! the eyes!' she cries, and tells of seing some awful eyes glaring at her near the Shrine in the Wood. In this shrine lies one of Torfrey's ancestors, who had -had a love romance, and had been buried with a tress of hair clasped in his hand, and on his breast a locket containing the portrait of a lady. The body of Tcm Gannett,, Lucy's-lover, is found in the bushes." ' '

From tliis time oh, everything goes wrong with Torfrey; his farm is burned,, his catle poisoned. The author achieves an electrical' effect with his handling of a thrilling plot. : "The Silver Dagger'' should prove the most populai- serial this paper has published to date". ;