Papa Topaz single work   short story   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1897... 1897 Papa Topaz
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Railroad story. A happy manly engineer on a Rockies line is heart-broken when his wife runs off with another man and takes his precious daughter with him. The girl mysteriously returns and he raises her. Then in 1887 his train is involved in an accident and his wife dies unconscious in his arms ... Slight warm sense of love of fellow railwaymen for him and his daughter; powerful description of the accident; moral failure of the wife stressed by her death ... (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 32 no. 388 September 1897 Z1073899 1897 periodical issue 1897 pg. 652
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