'Two orphans, Jennie and Roy, leave the diggings after the death of their father. They tramp along the bush roads towards Sydney, intending to seek their relations. Roy, a delicate boy, becomcs exhausted, and Jennie conveys him to a digger's hut, where he dies. Jennie changes into his clothes, fearing to face the rough people of that wild district. The diggers, returning to their hut, are astonished to find it occupied, and console the bereaved boy (as they believe Jennie to be). They bury Roy, and afterwards prevail on Jennie to stay with them and be useful as their boy. Jennie soon finds herself in love with the kind Harold, who shows his store of gold, and promises to share it with the boy. Jennie keeps her sex a secret, and eventually the hut is robbed and Jennie kidnapped, and the diggers discovering the robbery, think the boy is the culprit, until they find other evidence; The after events come fast and exciting. The diggers chase the robbers and kill one, but Sleath, the chief villian [sic] escapes with Jennie, on whom he finds valuable papers. He takes her to Sydney, promising to restore her to her people, but in reality to blackmail them. How Jennie escapes helped by Tess and Toggles, Sydney children, and how, the love that rules the world brings two lives together, and supplies many humorous and tragic scenes, the picture graphically tells.'
Source:
'A Daughter of Australia', Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail, 29 June 1912, p.2.
