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FASCINATING NEW* SERIAL OFMYSTERY AND SENSATION.OH THETENANT OF HILL HOUSE,BYEDMUND DOWNEY,Author of Holiind the Door. ‘ The Merchant . of Klllosue. ' A House uf Tears.”t I Through Green Glasses,” CaptainLunaguns Log. t\. c.SPECIAL AllRANaKMKNTS HAVE Jt’S'V J1KKN '•lt;*:lt;«• un-FI' WHICH KNAHUK I'*-'1’U AN.Vi'l'Nl'K VIIK FORTHCOMING I'l'BI.lL'ATfOX IN t.U’R t’Ol.l .UN.' i»F AN INTENSELY THRILLING AND «H4IGI-NAI, NmVFU FROM tiii: jt:n OF AIK. illlML'NU DOWNLIY.Mr I'DMl'ND DOWNEY i« will Known ! the author i*t \ Houii- .if Tears. n book | which Mi-ui.il quit.- ix ge-nsalkin when lirr-i , published, ntul roodved the warm Otul vatu-able lt;lUiini.-iMlail «n iif the tut-.- Fiofe*lt;ut' owen tTuler the pseudonym of ”F M. Allen, ho hua given In the m.rld hi.me- of the I llnem hunii.ur and pathos t » he found In the 1 whole niugc .if English literature lli.t ( stork\« -it iriFh life are lull ol IrreprcsHildr provoking mirth, and th- paradoxical Irah i hill-art -1\ with Its* quulmn-shrcwdnel**.and rollicking humour I*- graphically kfui«en- InoweiTii.ly sketched. But his versatile .us rinds vein mu ouiy in humorous books but in mure serlout* and Hcnsat tonal works. [ In su, h stories 115 'The .Merchant of KiJ logue' nnd Behind tin* Door. (h- vivid and lifelike * humi'lors ure pourlruy'-d with tare | skill and knowledge. In many respects Air. | Downey's sIork'F resemble fhafles Lever's, and have in them nil the humour or that 1 author and Murk Twain.Mr Downey write* BtoVlvH which hold u« I spellbound by their ingenuity, vivacity, and J wIt. The reader f'-els that he is in the grip of ft powerful writer, and t-annnt rest utitfl la* lias finished th- ntory.THE OPENING CHAPTER C*F. THE GREAT EMERALD,up. THU. j Tenant of Hill House,introduces the render to John Ulair. uf Hatton Garden, und Benjamin Mostly, u man of tnarktnl eccentricities. who, on account of hia pccullur visage, «t.civoh the sobriquet of The I'Sty -Man '■ lilait is u large dealer In prec-loua atoms, und has Just purchased for cloven thousand pounds th* great wneiuld of Cawn-pore, ri-markublu for ito six-- and exquisite lieuuty. uml rendered more vuluuble by us unique history. Mosely, who la u personaL friend of Blair, drops in to remind the latter of tils promise to dine with him the same evening, uiul hlnta that he will have some lm-portunt matter to discuss after dinner. blun notices Hint the Jew Ih very reaticaa und *x-clted, but hua ho inkling of the nature of the business ho mysteriously lusinuubd by Alonely. He shoivB MoBely I lie stone, und In replytu very mysterluuB question* usuures him that ho will have it dose beside him *lt;i night in Ids bedroom ul his Norwood residence-,. vTb» Nook 1To niuke awurann- doubly aura Bluli wires to hla son who In ataylng ul Manchester, t.* 1 icturn by Ju-Xl train, In «rd*.r that he may Buntd th* precious gem whilst the dealer him- 1 -elf ia uwny Blulr locks the emerald up in J hla private aafe. but th.-soli li- lute in arriving, . uml the fill her govs oit to the Hill Ilou***-. leaving the stone without guardian The mu j House- I* a Kloomy. deserted pine*. which uf fords a g«*»d view of The Nook, und which Mosely hua purchased without uny Kuuau irilMillDuring dinner Moacly Is vcry r*-«llrMH and appears to he ill. The but hr suddenly eniem. 1 und whispers something t-- Ida master, who, *apologising lo Ills guests, ubiupily I* uif* the Lla hie und gues out. A long. Impatient alienee 1ensues, the guest** nulling for the boat. They ivgo to the windows und ure enrprlird to llml t!thut lights uppeur tu hv travelling up and down their own home. Illulr In mu* Ii din- jturbed, and puremptorily ordering hln wife *in accompany him. drive.-* ofT rapidly in the Nbrougham. What-ver suspicions might In-ent*-i lulned of Mosely * good fuhh arc alleviated by th*- fuel of hi** being a personal friend. , arid by til*- belief thut ho I* peeking (lie huud of lllairs duughtciThin only brings the reader to the conclti- a■ion of the lirwl tnstalnienl The followingchapters urn very • xcning. and the„ ¥which Is exceedingly |H*Wvrful. nnd splcudhtfi £ written lUitnlnatc' m a sulking den»ue nl rnvnt. dTHE OPENING CHAPTEHfl f.OF • ,uTHE GREAT EMERALD. J Tenant of Hill House, ?BY CEDMUND DOWNEY.n*WILL UK ISHI KD IN TIIE FOLFMN8 .-'I* D*THE AUSTRALIAN STARON t’OMPKETlON OF . ,D.Ai;lt;-m M lip THE I'EGl'LE.”
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Sydney Australian Star
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Fri, Sep 30, 1898
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