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A temperance tale set principally during the gold rush days. Two English youths love the one girl, and she loves the one inclined to drink. His faithful friend follows him out to Australia but when he fails to save him from drink on the diggings, shoots him rather than allow him to marry her. He returns to England but eventually she learns the truth and all three lives are blighted ... This tale told to a station owner by a reclusive shepherd in his employ ... Sentimental but a certain strength in the 'murder before marriage' determination. Weakest in the introduction and conclusion where the narrator tells of his conversion to temperance. (PB)
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