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Two meetings with a 'strange unknown' Frenchman, the first in Easyville the second in Pitt Street Sydney, convince the narrator of his uncanny powers - especially as he foretells the loss and then the death of the narrator's beloved in Easyville. (PB)
In a cottage on the Ballarat road, John Moffat attempts to frame a drunkard with the murder of his 'mad' wife, not realising that they had loved each other in youth ... (PB)
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Includes the first instalment of M. Walsh's 'A Sketch of Killarney', pp. 389.
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Includes the second instalment of F. Gill's 'Mina's Fate', pp. 380-384.
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Includes the third instalment of Sylvanus Cobb Jnr's 'The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore', pp. 373-380.