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Edwin J Welch. Dinky Darbison
Dinky Darbison
Table of Contents
Chapter I.—At Barumbah Station
Chapter II.—The Rift in the Lute
Chapter III.—An Amateur Bushranger
Chapter IV.—The Aftermath
Chapter V.—The Story of the Geffels
Chapter VI.—Evesham Once More
Chapter VII.—News from the Old Land
Chapter VIII.—The Blacks at Barumbah
Chapter IX.—Morrison Promoted
Chapter X.—A Chance Meeting
Chapter XI.—Darbison and Armstead Meet Again
Chapter XII.—A Shock for Mrs. Elliston
Chapter XIII.—The Merry Widow
Chapter XIV.—Darbison's Dramatic Home-coming
Chapter XV.—A Surprise for Alice
Chapter XVI.—Mrs. Elliston's Dilemma
Chapter XVII.—Robert's Little Flutter
Chapter XVIII.—The Hon. Alice Maderly
Chapter XIX.—Alice Remains True
Chapter XX.—Homeward Bound
Chapter XXI.—A Somnambulistic Adventure
Chapter XXII.—Mrs. Elliston's Reward
Chapter XXIII.—"Joe the Rasp."
Chapter XXIV.—Retribution
THE END
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Edwin J Welch
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Still thinking about the man and his weird appearance, he rode forward, wondering if the proprietor of the station, whose name he had been told was Darbison, could by any chance be a connection of his old shipmate. Lieutenant Aubrey Darbison, under whom he had served as a midshipman in the Rodney during the latter part of the old ship's commission on the Mediterranean station.
What if it should be "Dinky Darbison" himself—so called by the irreverent youngsters in the gunroom to distinguish him from a paymaster of the same name attached to the port guardship Hibernia, who was known as "Smouch Darbison" on account of certain little peculiarities of which they disapproved? He knew—and that was all he did know—that Darbison had thrown up the service on the death of his father, a tremendously wealthy manufacturer in the north of England. He had settled down on his property, after marriage with some society beauty of ancient family but sadly impoverished estate, since which he had quite lost sight of him.
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