Show I Chance Plays Role I In New Novel the What happens happen when Chance pagan madonna lays las her sinister blessing es on the lives v of people strangely strange strange- 0 onH eo t ly met Harold MacGrath's latest mystery story The Madonna the blind I is the story of how Chance madonna of ot the pagan drew Into I the seething circle of an adventure lives liveR that It WP WI visa not meant to t touch ch Coming after The Tho Man Ian With Three I II I I Names and The Drums of Jeopardy It will set a n. new top mark marl for MacGrath's MacGrath's Mac- Mac Grath's popularity It Is from every an angle le the story of ot his career to date It opens with a silent drama In Ling Koo's Koos curio shop In Shanghai where I a wounded fugitive e is dragged out by bys' bys s' s sent ent The loot which the corn cornered rd man had thrown Into Ito a corner cor cor- npr ncr turns on ont to be ho glass beads ap- ap worthless Pete to get tret pt rid of them the canny Chinaman disposes dig dis poses paces of them at an inconsequential I Price to his very ery next customer Jane I Normn orm P. P At her hotel the two men of the curio shop episode recognise nl the heeds beads I II i she Is w wearing So too Ino does Anthony Anthon- Cleugh millionaire collector by whom j the two were commissioned to get them One Is Cunningham internationally internationally known among unscrupulous curio hunters and a man of almost unearthly Unearthly unearthly un un- earthly fascination There Is also Captain Captain Cap Cap- tain taiti Dennison Miss lIss Normans Norman's friend and as yet unaware of It Cleigh's es estranged estranged es- es son By what Vh amounts to abduction Cleigh gets them upon his private yacht But the tables are turned when It is revealed that the crew is leagued with Cunningham What follows the within w tp t strange company company com corn pany the continual revelation of ot new motives the clash of ot elemental passions pas pas- above above all the superb climax climax- makes this one of ot the strangest orderings orderings or- or s of life that ever came under the inscrutable rule of the pagan ma- ma Chance Chanco Doubleday Page Page- Co Garden City N. N Y ma-I ma |