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The Master of Hillside
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Mrs Batten mistress of her farm Hillside and wife of a drunkard picks up a motherless boy in the bush and gives him work and a home with her. She discovers he is her husband's son by his first and true wife who he deserted and she makes a will leaving the farm to the boy. Stephen Batten is kills her in a drunken rage and himself falls into a disused well and drowns - leaving the boy 'master of Hillside'. (PB)
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