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Jack Harrington's early years on Tinandra Downs cattle station on the Gilbert River were prosperous. He married a Sydney girl and employed Helen Alleyne as her companion. Helen is a girl to whom he had shown compassion after she tried to kill herself. But when the district is struck by drought his fortunes change dramatically, only to change again when the rains come and gold is discovered on his property.
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In four numbered parts
Has epilogue: '"Out on the wastes of the Never Never -/That's where the dead men lie!/There where the heat-waves dance for ever-/That's where the dead men lie!" (Barcroft Boake, in the Sydney Bulletin.)'
Becke calls his protagonist Jack Barrington in the first sentence and Jack Harrington thereafter.
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