The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-04
SUNDAY. AUGUST a. 1913.

ser want. His and he have parted lrreyocably-
We Find the Woman.
When the story opens this negro, Bella, has gone
forth on morning errands, unprecedentedly leaving
the gate in the fence ajar! A woman In purple,
healthy veiled has entered the grounds. The gap
ing neighborhood ventures in after her but does
not ind her. The crowd comes upon the Judge sit
ting erect and apparently lfeless in his house, 1t
is an attack of catalepsy. little later the negro,
MORALLY wounded by automobile, returns and
, dies trying to guard the iron door In the house
which preserves his masters secret.
The woman in purple turns out to be Mrs. SEQ
WILLIE She sees the Judge and tells him that his
son. OLIVER, has fallen in love with her daughter,
REUTER- She also tells him of her conviction that
her husband did not STAY ETHERIDGE. 1t is con-
vction arrived at since his execution Late it is,
she is determined to do what she to uncover new
evidence.
Oliver, but Not Osborne.
Chapter by chapter, piling sensation on sensa-
ton Mrs. GREEN writes of Mrs SCovuLlEs quest.
There is the shadow of the man in the peaked cap
seen advancing into Dark Hollow at the hour Of the
crime There is the picture of OLIVER OsTRANDER
seereted in his fathers house with band of black
painted across the eyes. There is the point of
knife blade in the stick with which ETHERIDGE was
killed, and the blade from which it broken lies
folded in divers desk. A peaked cap hangs in
OLIVER closet!
Just when every circumstance drives home the
conviction of DIVERS guilt Judge OsTRANDER
shows Mrs. SCovnAE written statement that es-
tabshes the fact of an earlier murder by her hus-
band. She is taken all aback, and for the moment
she believes again that the right man was put to
death for the murder of ETHERIDGE. But the Judge
hor lnnly nj fho poanfa fQn
long 1t has been tempered with at the close; for
gerry has been done!
Two Trains Pass.
OLIVER must be found, for an accusation against
him has got abroad and the police are looking for
him. There is race between the agents of the
district attorney and the messengers of the Judge.
He is found in a remote spot in the Adlrondacks
and fees but whether to return home at his fathers
summons or to escape to Canada who knows' By a
desperate drop the side of cliff he has landed
in tree top. The train is not due for fifteen
minutes. He'll catch it.
The train southi'
Yes, and the train north. They pass here y
Is it a return or flight to escaped Thus, in
chapter after chapter, Mrs GREEN creates new sus-
pense introduces new thrills. AS each lesser IN
certainty is resolved fresh takes its place, and
always the great ma or questions hang unanswered
over her story-till the very close. Then the one
closed avenue to solution is unbarred, the stun
ming surprise is sprung and the curtain falls swiftly
on Supplying denouement. Between the big reve
lation and the very end of the tale there is Just
time and just explanation enough to convince the
reader of what he would least have believed before
How She Does 1t.
This faint outline of capital story illustrates
Mrs. GREEN s talent Now for the explanation. The
whole art of it consists in truly infinite capacity
for taking pains.
Before writing this story it was necessary to
write, or get clearly in mind, the biographies Of
half dozen people Their lives had to be fully
known to the author, to innumerable incidents
which would not be used in her story. Particularly
it necessary to know every aspect in the past
of the relations of these people to each other.
1t was next necessary to reconstruct the crime.
A period Of twenty minutes or half an hour at
given place was under consideration. Where was
this place and where did it stand with respect to
every other place in the story-Judge OsTRANDER's
house, the Claymore Inn, the ruin of SPENCER's