The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-04
Get This Thrill!
WHERE is BELAs

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WHERE is BELA'
ga high and narrow gate of carefully Joined
boards, standing ajar in fence of the same con-
struction! What is there in this to rouse whole
neighborhood and collect before it a group of
eager, anxious, hestating peoplei
az will tell you.
t'Ths fence is no ordinary fence and this gate
ordinary gate is the fact of the latter stand
ing trife open one to be lightly regarded or taken
an inconsiderate advantage of. For this is Judge
OsRANDER's place -
On, On; Faster!
We read And we read. The others retired for
the night. The pale moon swan slowly through
the heavens regarding us with calm, cold in
difference. The town clock doomed midnight then
one then two. Fatality hung in the air. Horror
coursed in the veins and the blood ceased to pulse
through the arteries. Occasionally ripened apple
dropped from the nearby tree to the ground At
the thud we jumped. But We could not stop until,
on page 3S1, the last of Dark Holow, We had read
the solemn words: peace for him; and for
REUTER- and OLIVER, hope!'' Then we crept off to
bed. Utter exhaustion of all sensation brought
swift sleep.
1t must have been about a third of the way
through that the conviction stole over us of Judge
ETBERDGE in Dark Hollowi Did JOHN ScovIILE,
executed for the crimei -shuddering thought
young OLIVER OsTRANDER STAY that friend of his
fathers whom he hated soi Neither :.
neither! Then whof Why the unlikeliest person
in the book, of course, and trust ANNA KATHARINE
GREENto make it plausblel
Why Does She Do It?
Mrs. GREEN-it is difficult to know whether to
all Gp11,
Mrs. GREEN cannot write for a cent as slang
has it; but she can write and has written for
good many dollars! And by that we dom mean
her motive is purely businesslike; we prefer to
believe that she writes for the exercise of her mar
vellous and peculiar talent and to afford excitement
and entertainment to many thousands who read her
books. What is this talentf Ct is impossible in
writing about her to avoid falling into the tkeatr
csm of her narrative StyleD
Did you ever try to write mystery storyi If
you have tried you will understand much better
than we tell you. And if you haven t it will be
necessary to take single specimen of Mrs. GREEN s
work to illustrate her powers.
Dark Hollow
Dark HoIl0U-and she never wrote a more ex-
cellcnt yarn-centres about the murder of Al
GERNoN ETHERIDGE twelve years before the nara
tive begins. JOHN SCovuLE, keeper of tavern
was tried and executed for the crime swearing his
innocence ETHERIDGE was the closest personal
friend Judge ARCHIBALD OsTRANDER had. Circum-
stances compelled Judge OsTRANDER to preside at
SCo,ILE's trial, and the Judge not merely i'm
partial but manifestly favored, so far as was COM
patible with fairness, the defence The evidence
against SCovn1E was purely circumstantial but
strong. He had been in Dark Hollow that night
at the time of the crime. ETHERDGE was killed with
SCoyuLE's stick SCovHL.E's character was bad.
For twelve years since the crime Judge OsTRAN-
DER has lived shut off from the world, except for
his appearances on the bench. His grounds are
walled off by high board fence within a high