The Test of Friendship single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1887... 1887 The Test of Friendship
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Tale of male friendship surviving female perfidy. The Italian mountains witness a reunion between two friends of youth, an English traveller and the other a scholar and hermit who had lived in the area for ten years. Slowly they unfold the story of their separation by a beautiful woman they both loved and who was false to them both. An action to protect his friend from a murder charge had prompted the hermit to flee England, and a calumny implicating him in the murder prevented his friend from following and forgiving him for many years. Condensed atmosphere. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 23 no. 268 September 1887 Z1061695 1887 periodical issue 1887 pg. 39-44
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