Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-26

disreputable postmaster, Mr.. Mark
Bleksley. Plays the banjo divinely, but
steals our letters
"tOh, / say
"tMr. Maurice ~Stair-quite eligible
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Assistant native
commissioner, and not bad looking.
Handsome, Mrs. Valetta.' ventures
Mr.. Stair.
These are Hunloke and Dennison.
They keep a shop and rob us shame
fully. Mr.. Hunloke is an American
lawyer by profession, but he finds that
overcharging us for bully beef pays
better than law. and gives him more
time for picnics.'
~ could take action on those state
ments,' (protests the ex-American law
yer.) They are scandalous and libelous.
LAS for Tommy Dennison-
Please don't rob me of my good
name, Mrs. yaietta. It's all | have
left. I'm as eligible as Stair anyway
No. Tommy, you are a younger SON
and you rave a past. Every n says
YOU have y 49, >. And so / went on.
Everybody crowded about the newly
arrived heroine and said the widest.
silliest things about themselves and
about each cther-'and a few yards
away was that hateful voice. Tow and
level, with the disturbing crake in it
that suggest ID power and the habit OF
issuing orders This voice belonged to
Anthony Kinsella, that vivid personal
ity who wore two tiny bits of turquoise
stuck in his ears. Anthony kinsella
also had a mysterious past, as we'll as
q utov1orfII 4Tsacanna EfNarN woman
in Mashonaland, married or otherwise,
was stealthily in love with Anthony
Kinsella-peraaps this was why al. the
women We're so catty and had such
ragged TO permit anthony
Einsella to make love was TO invite
scandal and plenty of it. DeirdrA
Saurin invited its When the war called
to Anthony Kinsella-ierce, b~arbarous
African War--Deirdre Saurin walked
out in front of all of them and kissed
him boldly. She was, os~tracised for
that. There was m~aneuVering among
the men to see who could get out of
going to the front Maurice Stair. tie
assistant commissioner, who was not
bad looking. stayed at home. He made
love to Deirdre Saurin. Anthony Kin
sella was reported missing. 1t was
Stair who Ven out after him, and
came back with one turquoise earring.
Then Stair married Deirdre. After
that, there was a kitten-Snowy+ who
had eyes like Kinsella. = Something
happened to the kitten. 1t walked in
one day when Deirdre and Stair and
a guest were dining. Speaking of the
kitten, Deirdre says:
with a cry ] caught her up and put
her On the table before me. The next
cry came from the guest. My God!
The fiend who did that ought TO be-
hanged" Maurice Stair had three long
scratches on his hand. It was he who
had broken every bone in the kittens
body. After hat Stair told the truth.
The turquoise he had found had not
come from Tony Kinsella's ears. The
reader must find out the rest for him
self. It is a story of terrific power.
The author strips social Africa down
to its naked soul 1t is wholly unlike
any other exposition that you have
ever read. Over the Whole thing-liye-
ly as it is-hangs tragedy, terror, fear
as to what may happen next. Maurice
Stair, who could beat a kitten into
pulp and permit it to live that way
for three whole days-he was not
among the worst of the crowd. In the
end he redeemed himself.
They are all worth reading about.
even though they all had claws and
showed them and mad them felt.
Perhaps they are pretty much Ill We
are, after all. Deirdre Saurin. the
heroine. could scratch, too. But she
had good excuse. She was desperate.
GO
It is the style nowadays to
begin novels at the altar and go on
from there. These usually involve the
man, the woman-and the other men or
women, as the case may be. Amid a
wilderness of this sort of thing-do-
nestle unhappiness-it is refreshi g to
happen upon a green and o ering
oasis like Essence of Honeymoon" 1t
is written by Mr.. II. Perry Robinson,
and is published by Harpers. 1t begins
| at the altar, 1t is true, but right hat