Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-06-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BELL BURNETT'S SIN.  A REALISTIC STORI.  In the " Weekly Courier " of Seiturdny, July 8, will be canmeecod • NEW AND SENSATIONAL STORY OF REAL LIFE, entit4ed  BELL BURNETT'S SIN: A sToal ON HUMAN PASSION;  By the Author of "Maggie Ray," " Amy Lintoia," " Dorcas Delane," "A Modern Ishmael,' &e.  Isabel Schofield is the belle of Goßiotite; haring been °Malan as the Rose Queen for three successive years. She is • winder in a cotton mill, and is wooed and won by a handsome young Leigh collier, ,Arthur Burnett. Fired with the ambition to rise in the world--to emulate the entices. of Sir George ballot and Mr. Burt—Burnett attends the Science ClAlltleS at Wigan in order to qualify himeelt for the position of colliery deputy. Bell Burnett resents being left alone so often in the evenings, and her resentment is fanned by a handsome, well-dressed stranger, whom she meete in her 'ambles. The neglected young bride elopes with Algernon Srlveater, as her tempter evils himself, and takes with her the savings of her husband. Instead of the suburban villa he had deactibed to her in glowing terms, Bell Burnett is taken by Silvester to a couple of furnished rooms in a Manchester slum. Gtadrially the nestup throws otl the mask, and Bell discovers that she has forsaken home and husband to be the ill-treated drudge of a professional criminal, known to his summates as *' Plucky  The life led by Bell Burnett for the next two yeata is depicted in a series of graphic chapters SO vividly realistic that the readers of the Story may be emitted if they believe that the incidents have been taken horn life. Vleitiug a sick neighbour, Bell catches the smallpox, and ia so much disfigured thereby that Silvester brutally bids her go back to her collier husband. She returns to Leigh, to tind that Burnett has mounted the first rung of the ladder of fame. She is unrecognised, and under an assumed name returns to the mill. The reconciliation of Bell to her husband icon, of the most pathetic chapters in the Story, and will noubtleisa, in the opinion of our readers, enhance the reputation of the Author es a skilful and truthful delineator of the oyes and eur• lowa of life SS they adecE tire working classes. But Bell Burnett hes not seen the brat of the scoundrel who enticed her to violate her marriage vows. He appear,' suddenly at the colliery where Buinett is deptity Inedirgeet and Bell lives in dread kit he should discover her. A horrible crime is perpetrated at the colliery, the eny,inemati being foully murdered and his body thrown into the furnace. Bell Burnett suspects Bilveater, sod by menus of an anonymous nen, frighten* hint into flight. Hie dying confessittn in prison, and the subsequent happineva of Bell and her husband, form a fitting conclusion to one of the most remarkable Seriel.Storiee ever penned. " Bell Burnett's •Sin " will entrance everyone who reads the Story. It is full of sensational incidents and dunnage situatione, and every chapter ii permeated with lite intense realism l,t hltS made the Author's Serials an exceedingly popular.  The Opening Chapters of BELL BU RN ETT'S SIN will be given in the " Weekly Courier " of SATURDAY, JULY 13Ta.  TERRIBLE 414GEDY IN CHESHIRE