Riverina station adventure. Tracy Linden, an English new chum and barrister, is searching Australia for his guardian's missing son and heir. He strikes up a friendship with a gentlemanly but uncommunicative station hand, Joe. Joe loves his horse, Carmen, and the friendship grows. Linden plans to continue his search on the day Joe returns from a trip to Sydney. Joe does not return and a search party assisted by Carmen finds him wounded. He dies a few days later,revealing he is the man Linden was searching for and showing a volume of Wordsworth bearing the name of Joe's true father.(PB)