Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1904-06-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ISO 2.k, free: 12) Plants, irviludmg Aerroi, Stooks, Zinnias, Dialling, eta, 2a. Mot tree; 'll *tong, heathy ggsults. N.. 8. Banks„ Hazel tdonvn, Onavaton. R. 5.0., York. 10-0  You can Begin this Charming Story This Week by reading the following Synopsis ..-- Austin Darner, a rising landscape painter, is touring among the Yorkshire moors with his caravan and a servant named Hackett. Lamer had the good fortune to save the life of a beautiful girl—Nora East—whose horse had got beyond her control; and the two are in process of falling in love with each other. Mrs East, the mother, passes as a widow from South America, who haa made money in stock-rearing. Both the Rector of Inglefteld and Colonel Rutherford are in love with Mrs East, while Nora is supposed to be all but engaged to the Reistot's son. Cyril Marsden, however, 's in love with the mother, not the daughter, and astonishes the widow by declaring his passion. When she repulses him, he shows that her secret is in his possession. Distracted, she is on the point of destroying herself, when her hand is arrested by that of a man, her convict husband, who was hiding in tho window curtains. He leaves a note asking his wife to meet him cri the moors beside a chasm called the Bottomless Pit. There is a quarrel, followed by a struggle between the two, and the husband, George Ferris, falls down the cleft, Mrs East only being saved from a like fate by her clothing catching in a crevice. Austin Darner discovers her, and assists her to regain a plaoe of safety. In spite of Cyril Marsden, Mrs East engages herself to the Rector. Cyril comes en the scene just at the critical moment, and, mad with jealousy, denotmoes the lady. Mr Marsden, however, will listen to nothing. and threatens to disinherit his son. Late that night Mr Marsden is disturbed by a tapping at the window. He opens it to admit George Ferris, a disreputable cousin, who had been a convict. Ferris begs for money, which the Rector gives him. Cyril comes to the library, and Ferria has just time to withdraw behind the hangings, where he is witness to a scene wleeh ends in the son stabbing the father to the hears. Mrs East, under the Rector's will, comes in for half hie fortune. Cyril's inheritance depending on his marriage with Nora. Austin Darner, on the advice of Oolonel Rutherford, proposes to Nora and is accepted. George Ferns, who was not killed by his fall down the chasm, returns, under the name of "George Lynch," to persecute his wife, telling her he intends to macry Violet Marsden and settle in Inglefield. onel Rutherford and Darner find a dead body in the cave under the 00/onel's house, and it is identified as the corpse of a jeweller's traveller who bad been neeslitg some time. Gertrude East taxes Ferris with the murder, and declares thst ehe will denounce him if he does not at once. leave the country. The callow wretch, however, is still defiant, and shows Mrs East that she cannot prove anything against him. Flail:Ge Rutherford, who is engaged is, ✓iolet Marsden, quarrels with her becaue, of her championship of Lynch. Cyril over• Is them and gees at once to thc American to tell him. of the advantage he has gained. Colonel Rutherford finds in Mrs East's possession a portion of the handkerchief with which the man in the cave had been strangled.  _ Orl  ii i.;~:,..: T..,