Show I Gripping Story Is Written Writt n by Woman Author 1 i The situation that faced Judge Austen was was an unusual one The woman woman he had to pass sentence on had hat refused to talk an and there thereas was as something something- about her which made you believe that she ahe he would not live livelong livelong livelong long so the courtroom spectators were re not s surprised e he her N five five- years years' t i for l i ter It was after this that he discovered dis dia- covered that she was vas his his' wife who I had deserted him years before Right night from the start Harriet T. T I Comstock Jumps irto the theme of or her latest book Smothered Fires All through the book she gives you ou 1 I Austen's struggle with his wife who after ten years still holds holda him himin himin in a grip that dashes all his hopes I of happiness happiness' with another woman to pieces There is a child too He discovers at last that Verity is his hison own o daughter but when wilen he takes her into his home he lie keeps this from her Verity struggles with the feeling that she doesn't belong to anyone Austen has promised to tell her hel about It when she sho Is old enough to understand Verity discovers his secret when he Ime Is about to tell her I and he Is Is a little surprised at the way she accepts It That is a brief of ot Harriet Corn Corn- stocks stock's novel To get the real gripping gripping grip grip- ping affect of the story It must be read To tell It itIn In In brief leaves out too many things that are necessary to the book and its characters The book Is not exactly a a cheerful stor story but perhaps that Is the reason it Is Isso Isso Isso so Interesting ard gripping The t n f 1 11 fn I fa I ol h a vi mr n in oo v. v V than the superficial There aro arc Jew few books written that reveal that side of life and when we do come across one we can appreciate it After all it is the big moments In life lite that count and the frivolous book will live about as lorg long as a frivolous incident so Harriet Comstock Com Corn stock who has been the author of many such stories can add another one to her list of successes and know now that she has written a book that hat will Ill be appreciated by many Doubleday Page Co Garden City N. N Y |