The ex-convict's tale set on a West Australian sheep station 1889-91, and briefly in England. A gentleman's son tells of his adventures abroad in Heidelberg and then in the army. Hitting a superior officer in 1867 for using his name to deceive a seduced girl, he spent 21 years in W. A. until finding a job as cook on the station. In 1891 he learns of an English inheritance and returns ... Light. (PB)