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The story opens when charming Lewish Ashton meets Selina Loudon the beautiful Melbourne heiress at a Victorian seaside village. Their engagement precipitates a quarrel with Ashton's closest friend Rupert Milne who had loved her too. On the seashore one night Milne knocks Ashton unconscious and leaves him to be drowned by the tide. He proceeds to console Selina, eventually winning her consent to marry him but on the eve of their wedding a blackmailer informs her of Milne's deed. She refuses him and Ashton returns from the dead ... (PB)
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