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1 Yangarilla : A Colonial Story Aurifex , 1874 single work novella In a dingy London room in January 1858, Annie Wyndham dies in poverty, destroyed by alcohol and dissipation, with the company of her friend in misery, Jane, a doctor and a nurse. She entrusts Jane with her marriage license and begs her to tell her husband of her death and her love for him. Jane determines to revenge Annie's death and follows Arthur Wyndham to Australia where he has married Grace Maitland and owns the beautiful station, Yangarilla. Jane's plot involves masquerading as Annie to bring shame to Arthur, his wife and child. Arthur disappears and is presumed dead before she can see him, but she bargains for an annuity and Grace leaves Yangarilla knowing she has no claim to be Arthur's wife if the story is true ... The search for the truth carries the story to London, through a friendly encounter with the doctor now turned American colonial, to unmasking the imposter in Australia, a tragic attack of the DTs and a double return from the dead. (PB)
1 Merton's Dream Story Aurifex , 1874 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 10 no. 114 1874; (p. 128-131) Set on the Ovens River, Victoria in 1862 at Beechworth, near another Victorian country town in 1867, and at Hobart town, Tasmania, in February 1868. A dream of danger in three scenes is fulfilled over six years in a government clerk's life. Easy tone of masculine camaraderie - a blokey story of the bush and presentiment. (PB)
1 A Night in the Wimmera Aurifex , 1874 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 10 no. 113 1874; (p. 70-73) An Englishman ('new chum') on a visit to a station in the Wimmera stumbles across a bush shanty and decides to spend the night - which is nearly his last from drugged brandy and noxious fumes ... Some promise. (PB)
1 Golden Prospects : A Story of the Old Swindle Shaft Aurifex , 1873 single work novella On the decaying diggings of Garraloop in Victoria, John Stapleton (the Baron) and Ned Roxlegh are mining partners and both a little in love with Kitty Martin, the store-keeper's daughter. They discover promise of gold in an old shaft. Ned proposes to Kitty on a picnic and is rejected - she loving the Baron - which spurs Ned to hate him. A mining company is floated in the town, and Ned attacks Jack at their mine. Kitty rescues Jack from a later attack and nurses him back to health. They marry and eventually Ned writes to them and is forgiven. (PB)
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