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A melodramatic adventure story, set in New Zealand. It focuses on Sydney Black, a down-on-his-luck card-sharper and sometime gold miner, who has fallen in with old company, including Paul Barjew, an outlaw who wishes to marry Black's daughter Nita.
'A complicated melodramatic tale turning upon the terms of a will and the substitution of one child for another, a fact that only comes to light after the boy has fallen in love with his own sister.' (The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008, p. 9)
