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Set in Scotland, the return of a murdered sailor's ghost to his home, and his fiancee's vision of the murder at sea. A family bible proves it all. (PB)
A scheme to forge banknotes is foiled in Sydney through the capture of a criminal after a scrimmage, the translation of a ciphered note, a trip to Hobart and a few weeks feigned cooperation. (PB)
Frank Selton and Blanche Burton meet and fall in love, her father consents to their engagement, only to have Frank die a few months after in Melbourne. 'There is no armour against fate.' (PB)
The lady seeking lodgings in Melbourne in an earlier issue of the AJ is now keeping lodgers herself. Her small furnished room is first let to a coquettish 40 year-old lady, but she is quickly replaced by the wealthy older gentleman she has been pursuing who determined to frustrate her plans. Warm, funny story. (PB)
A young lady's companion in England hears the story of her crotchety invalid employer's youth - of how she loved a man, found him married, and after waiting 15 years for him he married a younger woman. (PB)
Four prospectors on a New Zealand beach are swamped by high waves. One of them captures a bird he is determined to exhibit, but his hopes fail and he eats it when it is found to be a kiwi. (PB)