Length17h 21m
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Excerpt: "'What letter are you holding in your hand all this time, my dear?' said Captain Howard Effingham to his wife during a certain family council. 'Really, I had almost forgotten it. A foreign postmark—I suppose it is from your friend Mr. Sternworth, in Australia or New Zealand.' 'Sternworth lives in New South Wales, not New Zealand,' returned he rather testily. 'I have told you more than once that the two places are a thousand miles apart by sea. Yes! it is from old Harley. When he was chaplain to our regiment he was always hankering after a change from routine duty. Now he has got it with a vengeance. He was slightly eccentric, but a better fellow, a stauncher friend, never stepped.' 'Don't people go to Australia to make money?' asked Rosamond Effingham, a girl of twenty, with 'eldest daughter' plainly inscribed upon her thoughtful features. 'I saw in a newspaper that some one had come home after making a fortune, or it may have been that he died there and left it to his relatives.' 'Sternworth has not made a fortune. He is not the man to want one. Still, he seems wonderfully contented and raves about the beauty of the climate and the progress of his colony.' 'Let me read his letter out,' pleaded the anxious wife softly, and, with a gesture of assent, the father and daughter sat expectant."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length17 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I ‘FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW’
15CHAPTER XV THE LIFE STORY OF TOM GLENDINNING
2CHAPTER II THE FIRST CAMP
16CHAPTER XVI ‘SO WE’LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TO-DAY’
3CHAPTER III THE NEW HOME
17CHAPTER XVII THE FIRST MEET OF THE LAKE WILLIAM HUNT CLUB
4CHAPTER IV MR HENRY O’DESMOND OF BADAJOS
18CHAPTER XVIII THE MAJOR DISCOVERS HIS RELATIVE
5CHAPTER V ‘CALLED ON BY THE COUNTY’
19CHAPTER XIX BLACK THURSDAY
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6CHAPTER VI AN AUSTRALIAN YEOMAN
20CHAPTER XX AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT
7CHAPTER VII TOM GLENDINNING, STOCK-RIDER
21CHAPTER XXI A GREEN HAND
8CHAPTER VIII MR. WILLIAM ROCKLEY OF YASS
22CHAPTER XXII INJUN SIGN
9CHAPTER IX HUBERT WARLEIGH, YR., OF WARBROK
23CHAPTER XXIII THE BATTLE OF ROCKY CREEK
10CHAPTER X A PROVINCIAL CARNIVAL
24CHAPTER XXIV GYP’S LAND
11CHAPTER XI MR. BOB CLARKE SCHOOLS KING OF THE VALLEY
25CHAPTER XXV BOB CLARKE ONCE MORE WINS ON THE POST
12CHAPTER XII STEEPLECHASE DAY
26CHAPTER XXVI THE RETURN FROM PALESTINE
13CHAPTER XIII MISS VERA FANE OF BLACK MOUNTAIN
27CHAPTER XXVII THE DUEL IN THE SNOW
14CHAPTER XIV THE DUEL
