Cirrus@Austlit

Crime tale on the gold fields in the Great Dividing Range. Narrator's brother is robbed and left for dead after riding accident on the way to a new rush. His guide, a heartless debt collector, covers up the death but the narrator discovers his crimes by spying on him and his son. The explosion of a log loaded with explosives exposes Chaser's ill-gotten plunder, and wounds him mortally. He confesses before he dies and the narrator's brother returns from the supposed dead after adventures of his own. (PB)