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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 15, 15 April 1905, Page 22

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Commencing in Next Issue (Dated Saturday 22nd) Published Wednesr day, April 19th XXXXXXX Brother Rogue AND frother Saint BY TOM GALLON, * u,hor NO living Novelist exceeds Mr. Gallon in the power of writing a story which shall, from beginning to end, grip newspaper readers. Moreover, this anther’s tales have exceptional merits of another kind. As “Black and White” says: “Tom Gallon has obviously lived with his characters, has wept over their Borrows, and rejoiced in their joys;” and “The Globe” lays its finger on what is perhaps the predominant note in all Tom Gallon’s work: "The feminine element in his stories is gracious, sweet, unselfish, and might have come straight from the pages of Charles Dickens.” This Famous Author's Latest and Cleverest Story has been secured for " New Zealand Graphic" Readers Do Not Neglect to begin this Fascinating Story Order your next week's copy at once A SPECIAL FEATURE Extra Long Instalments of this capital modern novel in each issue WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT: Read this Synopsis carefully. It will interest you. Unquestionably the Sensational Story of the year 1905 BROTHER ROGUE and BROTHER SAINT COMMENCES with a stormy &cc-ne, in which old Roger Carvell, the self made bead of Cai veil's Bank, easts off his son. Dick. The immaculate elder brother. Steve, appealed to, refuses to help—so Dick goes into outer darkness with only a handful of loose cash. But he has one resource left—sweet Olive Wilmore, and to her he flies, sure of sympathy. Olive, however, meets him with constrained looks, and asserts that her mother has forbidden her to have anything more to do with him. Then it leaks out that Stephen Carvel) has been there. In the bitterness of his sou). Dick is in the mood to welcome the least diversion, and goes to his old club once more. He drinks heavily, and on departing wanders to Bank House. Passing through the French window Into his father's room, he finds the bank keys lying on the table. He takes these, but even as he does so sees the white face of a strange man pressed against the window pane. He hastens out, Lot there is no one there. Then he goes to the bank. Stephen Carvell is a hypocrite. In reality he is deeply involved in debt, and it is necessary for his safety that his younger brother shall be got out of the way. This very night he has gone to the hank the had a private key) to see what he can do to avoid the exposure which is threatening him. Suddenly ho is startled by sounds at the side door. He conceals himself, sees his brother enter, open the strong room doors, and return with a large packet of bank-notes. Dick handles these, decides to take them, and then resists the tempt a tlon; at last crying out in half drunken stupor. “No. I can’t do it. let the old wan keep his money.” Then Steve sees Dick shove the notes away from him, settle himself by the table as if resting, and fall asleep. Steve embraces the opportunity: grasps all the notes Dick has placed on the table, with others—and leaves his brother in the bank. When Stephen reaches Bank House he hears stealthy noises, and before he can reconnoitre the ground, is in the hands of a gaunt man with a hungry look abbot him. James Farley has found him at last. Stephen had wronged the man—and his wife—and now is come the nemesis of his crime. Failey presses for money: Stephen delays; at last there is a strugle. and Farley falls with a crash, wakine old Roger Carvell. Whilst bis antagonist is stunned, Stephen contrives to pacify bis father. As soon as silence reigns again, he returns to Farley—to find him dead. That night there is a flr a at Bank House, and it is stated that Dick's body has been found chaired so as io be unrecognisable: it is though? he had come back to bed and had perished in the flames. Only Stephen knows that the body was Farley's. As he talks with his father a messenger comes to say that the bank hag been robbed. Whereupon Stephen, drawing from his pocket the bunch of keys which Dick had Liken, tells his father that these have been found on the dead body of his brother, showing that he had robbed the bank. The story thus dramatically opened, is full to overflowing with exciting How the different threads of vilHany are pursued, and how virtue in the long run triumphs, ••Brother Rogue and Brother Saint” must itself he left to relate.

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