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1 With His Own Coin Monte Christo , 1898 single work short story adventure
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 33 no. 397 1898; (p. 397-399) Crime tale on the gold fields in the Great Dividing Range. Narrator's brother is robbed and left for dead after riding accident on the way to a new rush. His guide, a heartless debt collector, covers up the death but the narrator discovers his crimes by spying on him and his son. The explosion of a log loaded with explosives exposes Chaser's ill-gotten plunder, and wounds him mortally. He confesses before he dies and the narrator's brother returns from the supposed dead after adventures of his own. (PB)
1 Going to Work Monte Christo , 1897 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 32 no. 388 1897; (p. 607-608) Brief descriptions of people going to work along Sturt Street Ballarat on a winter's morning in July: overworked shop girls, a Sister of Charity and a fallen woman, a fisherman, policeman, fireman, doctors, orphan, a farmer, a trainee soldier fated to die fighting Zulus. Unrealised hints at the 'story of life'. (PB)
1 Tried and True Monte Christo , 1897 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 32 no. 385 1897; (p. 452-457) Narrated by a father to his three daughters in the 1890s, a romantic tragedy of the 1870s. A young clerk falls in love and proposes to the girl he saved from a runaway wagon whilst recovering from his injuries at her house. He is sent away on business shortly before their wedding and she meets and falls in love with a handsome talented fellow-violinist. They renounce each other and she marries her fiancée, bearing three children and deep sadness. To recover her health a trip to NZ is taken where she sees her true love, a drunken but genius musician. On their return trip he saves her husband, herself and their children when the ship flounders, they being temporarily reunited in the sea. He dies on the rocks and she shortly after ... The tale is told by the widowed husband, sure of his wife's love though aware it was also directed elsewhere. Well-written generally. (PB)
1 Podger's Toothache Monte Christo , 1896 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 31 no. 372 1896; (p. 436) A husband scorns his wife's toothache but is convinced he has cancer of the jaw and she has to minister to him. Domestic; humour. (PB)
1 Ralph Gordon's Sacrifice Monte Christo , 1896 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , January vol. 31 no. 368 1896; (p. 200-203) Tale of brotherly love and self-sacrifice. Two Scottish brothers, sons of a farmer's widow, both love the same woman - also Scottish and a neighbouring farmer's daughter. She accepts one before she knows the other loves her too. The brothers (with an Irish guide!) join a party to search for a traveller lost in the mountains, become separated and after finding the man discover themselves trapped with only one chance of escape. The brother who has been refused sacrifices himself for his brother. He shortens his own longer straw and dies in a snowstorm together with the lost traveller. Adventure - much description of the mountain climbing, weather etc. Brothers' love. Odd mix of nationalities in Switzerland. Some of the descriptions of the lost traveller contain echoes of Australian bush. (PB)
1 Pratt's Item Monte Christo , 1894 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 29 no. 350 1894; (p. 620) A newspaper editor's frustrated attempts to understand a news item being narrated by a farmer - and the farmer's increasing ire ... (PB)
1 The Bunyip Monte Christo , 1893 single work short story humour myth/legend
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 28 no. 337 1893; (p. 564) Fishing tale set around Lake Omeo and the Mitta, Victoria. German sausage, beer and a huge crayfish contribute to his vision of the bunyip. (PB)
1 Hope Monte Christo , 1893 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 28 no. 337 1893; (p. 559) Vignettes showing hope in life and beyond the grave: mother and dying child; sweethearts parted by battle; a traveller in the desert; a dying convict ... (PB)
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