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Carlton Dawe. Mount Desolation
Mount Desolation
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Before The Curtain
Chapter 2 The Curtain Goes Up
Chapter 3 Father And Daughter
Chapter 4 The Member For Billabong
Chapter 5 The Member Speaks
Chapter 6 Beneath The Stars
Chapter 7 How The Wooroota Bank Was “Stuck Up”
Chapter 8 An Interruption
Chapter 9 Surprises
Chapter 10 How The News Was Received
Chapter 11 Throw Your Hands Up!
Chapter 12 For Her Dear Sake
Chapter 13 The Squatter Goes Visiting
Chapter 14 The Cry Of The Curlew
Chapter 15 Beyond The Pale
Chapter 16 How The Wolf Went Forth
Chapter 17 Why Boomerang Was Kept Saddled
Chapter 18 The Chase
Chapter 19 Stanford’s Leap
Chapter 20 The Curtain Descends
THE END
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Carlton Dawe
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“In the native tongue,” she continued, apparently forgetting in her excitement aught else but the mountain, “it is called the Hill of the Dead. Long, long ago, when the inhabitants of this country lived and warred as civilised men do now, there was a very powerful chief who made war against the magicians who lived in the great ranges yonder. This chief had determined to overthrow the magicians, and with that object in view gathered together a vast army; but in the night, while the countless thousands lay wrapped in sleep, the magicians arose in their might, and tearing yonder great hill from its seat in the earth, they hurled it upon the sleeping camp.”
“How did you come by that strange story?”
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