"THE SILVER DAGGER."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 6

"THE SILVER DAGGER."

THE SUN'S NEW SERIAL

MASTERPIECE OF MYSTERY*

One of the features of THE SUN since its ineeption has been 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 R. A. J. Walling, has exceeded his previous best in this performance. Take the opening circumstances: —"Martin Torfrey, of the Villa Zj-inora, in Devonshire, proposes to Margaret Hayland, of .Haylands, and is accepted. Martin is sitting alone in his library the same night, when he hears i 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 «hrine 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 Tom Gannett, Lucy's tover, is found in the bushes." t. ■

From this time on, everything goes wrong with Torfrey; his farm is burned, his catl# poisoned. The author achieves an electrical effeet with his handling of a thrilling plot. "The Silver Dagger" should prove the most popular serial this paper has published to date.