SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13738, 29 August 1908, Page 6

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

C'JIVPTKII I.— Ono d.iy in June Am- ■ berlev Scott, a South African millionaire." uives a tea-party on the terrace oi a political club toeing the I names embankment. Charrington Brown, a brilliant young journalist, commences to tell a story in connection with the Illicit Diamond Buying traffic in South Africa. Brown's story is listened K> \\iM.i intense interest by* all present. Ho tolls of an employee at a Kimbeiir\\ mine, who, having locked up some diamonds m a safe, gc os to meet his sweetheart, Anr.e Basset. She, on her return 'home is arrested because some oi i lie same diamonds are found in her roon< Sho is sent to prison for seven \enrs. Scott coolly finishes Brown> siory for him, and tolls how the man i.v compelled to give evidence against the oirl, whom ho believes guilty. Broyn Mireatons to publish the story, which is obviously Scott's own, unless tho latter withdraws his candidature for a con>tituoncv which Brown is also contesting. Scott emphatically declines, and deties his opponent. Just then a lady is announced, who is no other than Anne Basset. CHAPTER II. — Anne Basket explains that *she has had two years of her sentence remitted, and that she has returned to England to clear her name and prove her innocence. Amberley Scott is. callous and cynically incredulous. Anne believes that an old clerk named Luke Fisher can help to prove her innocence, and asks Scott liis whereabouts. The financier promises his assistance, and arranges to meet her •on the Embankment late the same |ni<'ht. When leaving. Anne encounters haclv Minnie. Scott's wife. Immediately afterwards the latter misses a t diamond chain. I CHAPTER" lll.— That night Scott ■tells Anne that Fisher is dead. He 'uigos her to abandon her hopeless ques-t jlor prooi of*her innocence. She spurns his offers. He swears that she will never succeed : and at once the blinding truth of his guilt flashes upon her. She upbraids him, and pleads with him to confess his crime, bi^ in vain.