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An April Fool Convict single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 An April Fool Convict
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Florence Hillian leaves her boarding school to rush unattended to the side of her seriously ill father. A companion in her carriage changes his clothes and enlists her aid in helping him - a prison escapee - to avoid recapture. Accompanying her to her much restored father's home she discovers he is her Australian cousin paying her back for an April Fool's Joke ten years before. Romance follows. (PB)

Notes

  • From Orange Judd Farmer

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 33 no. 395 April 1898 Z1075032 1898 periodical issue 1898 pg. 291-292
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