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Bertha Adams, 33 and lady's companion to Hon. Mrs Hamlyn Vipont accompanies her and her invalid son Edgar to Australia for his health. Though considering herself very practical she becomes - through a psychologist and exponent of mesmerism and the occult, Professor Drayton, the means of discovering the death of Edgar's former love and finds a letter written to him by the girl before her suicide ... She sees the young woman's ghost and hears Edgar's tale before he too dies. Atmosphere of self-concealment and the occult, Brontesque in parts. (PB)
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- Rose Bay, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- Albert Park, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,
- Tasmania,
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