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Charles Deveril's unscrupulous experiments with his mesmeric powers on the mind of Naomi Chester drive her to the brink of madness and hasten her mother's death. Her sister Ruth's love for the hard-working school-teacher Alan Hearne seems similarly ill-fated for a time ... (PB)
The tale of a 45-year-old Edward Marton's plans to remarry, his sudden accession to his father's title, and a suspected fratricide. Tale of the Australian bush and Anglo-Australian connections - including faithful servants. (PB)
Set in Australia's north, on a peninsula, the story of a frail and weary old man's love for his grandson which drives him to search the impenetrable bush on a stormy night when the boy is feared lost. (PB)
Ruth Knowles supports her grandparents and invalid brother by giving music lessons. One night she agrees to play at a ball and is assisted in finding her way home by a gentleman who had earlier helped her onto a bus. On further acquaintance he proves to be her cousin ... (PB)
The story is concluded by the June issue with a small portion left off by accident. An editor's note indicates that Wilson was a bushranger, but in Maitland (shot in 1857) not in Albury as the tale relates. (PB)
A Boston miss visits her married cousin in Canada's north for skating and amusement. She receives a proposal but does not answer it until she has skated for life from a wolf, been saved and captured by an Indian, and shorn of her locks by his wife ... (PB)
Evelyn Lynn knowingly draws a husband's admiration to herself in the house where she is governess, careless of the dangers to her reputation in his determination to revenge the sufferings - especially by her current mistress ... (PB)
A tragedy at a bush hotel: a handsome hawker has unknowingly won pretty Emily determines revenge, and plots with Emily's stepmother to force Emily to marry him - thus allowing the stepmother to inherit the hotel. Plans go awry ... (PB)