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1 The Silver Fairy : An Original Romance of the Days of King Charles I The Baron , 1897 single work short story romance
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , December vol. 33 no. 391 1897; (p. 43-47)

High breathless romance of the loyalist heir to a noble English estate who returns home to hide after Cromwell's Roundheads have won the Civil War. His needs are catered for by two faithful old servants and a silver statuette - a family talisman. In fact it is his cousin who has long loved him and gains him repossession of his estates and forgiveness from her father - as well as giving him her love ... (PB)
1 Number Eleven : A Reminiscence of the Convict Hulks. Compiled from my Great-Uncle's Diary The Baron , 1888 single work short story historical fiction
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , April vol. 23 no. 275 1888; (p. 415-419) Interestingly written tale coupled with a description of the convicts' lives in the hulks and their work in the quarries near Sandridge and Williamstown, Victoria in 1856. Stresses the bestial nature of their lives. The hulks were the 'Deborah', 'Sacramento', 'Success', and the 'President'. Chief incident revolves around the escape of 5 convicts and their clever hiding places; the recapture of 4 and the mistaken arrest of the narrator returning from Captain Price's fancy dress ball in Melbourne dressed as a convict. His uncomfortable night in the hulks ends with his release in the morning. Unmistakable atmosphere of reminiscence, especially the introductory and concluding passages setting the author in the area - since become Spottiswoode, in 1888. Story itself has hallmarks of fiction. (PB)
1 The Night Special : A Tale of the Tasmanian Railways The Baron , 1888 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 23 no. 277 1888; (p. 551-553) A Hobart merchant's night of adventure when fireman on a Tasmanian railway line in 1871. Three escaped ticket-of-leave convicts, brigands at large, capture the engine he had prepared for a new trip from Launceston and - one of them recognising him as a witness who had helped convict him - he is suspended between the front buffers of the engine and endures a nightmare ride expecting death at any moment ... Well-paced narrative of action and terror in a Tasmania still in process of settlement. Includes a degree of intellectual reflection. (PB)
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