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Jane Short, an old midwife living on the Australian coast is hired one night to assist at a mysterious birth in a secret location. The child is born and she assists the mother to give it to a servant to spirit away to save it from murder. The mother disappears while Janes sleeps and again she fears foul play. The resolution involves a plot to destroy the heirs to a noble British estate ... (PB)
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