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THE CRIME On August 15, 188–, the public of Sydney were aroused to unusual excitement by the following announcement in the Evening Times of that date— “A NORTH SHORE MYSTERY. CRIME OR SUICIDE? SUDDE…
THE MISFORTUNES OF A B.A. OF LONDON UNIVERSITY It was Sunday night, or rather in the early darkness of the small hours of Monday morning, that Police-Constable Hobbs wended his slow and deliberate w…
MRS. HOBBS It was the custom of Mr. Hobbs when he had been on night duty to sleep till twelve noon on the following day, when he would awaken with a punctuality at the dinner hour which would shame …
THE BOARDING-HOUSE AND BOARDERS Mrs. Delfosse had “seen better days.” How it is that the profession of boarding-house keeping is for ever associated with a vista of past splendours history recordeth…
CONSTABLE HOBBS DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF Constable Hobbs , on duty outside Mrs. Delfosse’s, had for a long time nothing to break the monotony of his watch. He allowed the Professor to pass, knowing him…
MRS. BOOTH COMMITTED FOR TRIAL After his day’s round, Mr. Hobbs returned home to his tea. For this meal he was glad to see a plate of pink prawns on the table. If he had one weakness of the epicur…
LOOKING BACKWARD-WINDSOR Three years earlier than the incidents related in the preceding chapters, the walls and fences of that moribund and derelict country town, Windsor, were ornamented by a seri…
THE TWO LOVERS An empty wood dray was going up the main street, Windsor, a young man seated on the side rail, carelessly resting after bringing in a second load of firewood from Pitt Town Common. He…
HUEY AND ALEC The two lads had been to Sydney before as holiday visitors, but to actually live there, to depend for their future on what the city might offer, was a new, and at first, delightful exp…
THE GOLDEN BAR The door swung behind them, and truly the young men were fairly dazzled. A spacious room, walled with mirrors, with pillars and panelling, fretwork and tracery, all of burnished gold…
