Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-23

has few prospects, while Eleanor is
the granddaughter of rich. forceful
woman, who is something of an ogre tc
her family and those having dealings
with her. Eleanor's maternal rela-
tives. the Martcls, are considered of
lower caste than the Bartletts. and
because Grandfather Martel is an old
time actor. austere Grandm other Bart
lett will not recognize his family
in contact with both the Bartletts and
the Martels The story treats both
families impartially. In the end, Quin
| receives timely cooperation from
! Grandm other Bartlett in winning Flea
| nor-assistance that was hardly ex-
pected. It is story of long, diff
! ficult journey to win loye-but it's
most entertaining.
"The Flaming Forest"
James Oliver Curwood's latest nov
ell THE Flaming Forest published
by the Cosmopolitan Book corporation.
New York. is new book to be added
to the fiction section of the library.
Like all of Curwood's stories. this
deals with the Canadian northwest,
geant of the Royal Northwest mounted
police. David Carrigan. is sent on the
trail of Black Roger Audemard. a
murderer of an especially atrocious
type. who had disappeared after his
crime and been thought dead for Is
years. but now is believed to be alive.
Carrigan is shot from ambush before
he has been long on Audemard's trail.
and when he RECEIVERS Consciousness
he finds beautiful young woman
bending over him, with whom he
promptly falls in love. even though
he has good reason to believe she at
tempted to kill him. He learns her
name is Jeanne Marie-Anna Boulain
and he experiences varying degrees OF
unhappiness as result of his love
affair. There is an exciting climax in
the forest fire. from which the book
receives its title and which sweeps
through the northern woods around the
stronghold of st. Pierre Boulain, and
Carrigan escapes from the smoke with
precious burden on his back to re-
ceive his due reward. Some critics
say this book is not up to Curwood s
previous standard-but it is a most
entertaining story.
"Slght Unseen" 1.-THE Confession"
A psychic experiment is an integral
factor in the plot of Sight Unseen.
while spiritual forces enter into its
companion mystery story. THE Con-
fession''-two novelettcs that COM
prise Mary Roberts Rinehart's latest
book, published by George II. Doran
Co. New York Both are concerned
with a mysterious crime and are par
ticularly interesting bits of fiction.
written with that skill and care and
dexterity in the construction of plot
for which Mrs Rinehart is noted.
.Sight Unseen's" action opens at
meeting once week to talk or read
on specific subjects. On this .partic-
ular evening. an amateur medium or
sensitive" has been invited to give
seance before the company OF six. and
while she is in a trance her CONVEX
sation indicates that murder has
been or is being committed. After
the party breaks up. one of the mem
bers who is a physician is called to the
home of a neighbor where man has
committed suicide. The physician
takes with him another member of
the neighborhood club, and together
they verify some of the statements
they had heard few minutes before
from the lips of the medium in the
trance. AS time goes on the two
men do some amateur detective work.
which rather deepens than clears the
mystery. but another session OF the
club with the medium results in more
clues. and these are all substantiated
by the discoveries of the two investi
gators. In "rhe Confession remorse
seeks a queer path for its outworking
and conscience shows its power in
bizarre ways. The story is wholly OBJ
iectiye. a narrative of events that are
puzzling. disturbing. that
absorb the readers interest. that seem
sometimes to touch the skirts of un-
seen forces, but are finally explainable
in material terms. 1t is a story Of
the mental and spiritual life and suf-
ferings of the littlf frail, aristocratic.
white souled old lady who had COM
mitted the murder that is the basis of
the plot and concealed all evidence So
that no one guessed what she had
done. It is an exceedingly good tale
of it's kind.
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