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Tale of a broken romance, theft of gold and the discovery of Golden Reef. As a young man on the Jericho goldfields in 1859 the narrator fell in love with a local store servant cum bar maid. He tells her when he taking is his gold to a nearby town for sale but only discovers later, after she has accompanied him and helped the bushranger Captain Melville steal the gold, that she has betrayed him. In searching for his stolen gold he stumbles across a gold-bearing quartz rock and discovers the incredibly rich Golden Reef. Story claims to be factual with only names changed. (PB)
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- Victorian goldfields area, Victoria,
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