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The Gold-Stealers

CHAPTER XXIII
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He made no further calls at the homestead to inquire after Christina, but heard from Dick that she had not returned to Waddy, but was staying in Yarraman till after the trial.

Mrs.Haddon expressed an opinion that the poor girl felt the disgrace of her position keenly, and dreaded to face the people of the township where her father had been accepted as a shining light for so many years, and where she had always commanded respect and affection.
As the time for the trial approached Harry found himself hungering for a sight of her face again.

Pride and common-sense were no weapons with which to fight love.

At best they afforded only a poor disguise behind which a man might hide his sufferings from the scoffers.
The trial occupied two days.

The prisoner was defended by a clever young lawyer from Melbourne, who fought every point pertinaciously and strove with all his energy and knowledge and cunning to represent Joe Rogers as the victim of circumstances and Ephraim Shine--especially Ephraim Shine--who was a monster of blackened iniquity, capable of a diabolical astuteness in the pursuit of his criminal intentions.


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