On a Mountain in Virginia single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1886... 1886 On a Mountain in Virginia
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Helpless wayfarer/murderous host tale. A traveller in the Virginia mountains is driven to seek shelter by a terrible storm. He is reluctantly offered shelter in a rough house where the master seeks to murder him for his money but he is saved by a woman's warmings and a madman's thirst. Usual tale competently written. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 21 no. 250 March 1886 Z1029880 1886 periodical issue 1886 pg. 375-376
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