CONTENTS.

page
Proem[9]
chapter
I.The Master-Goldsmith[11]
II.The Wreck of The Mersey Witch[15]
III.The Pilot’s Daughter[18]
IV.Rachel Varnhagen[24]
V.Bill the Prospector[30]
VI.The Father of Timber Town[33]
VII.Cut-Throat Euchre[35]
VIII.The Yellow Flag[43]
IX.What looked like Courting[48]
X.Hocussed[51]
XI.The Temptation of the Devil[57]
XII.Rock Cod and Macaroni[62]
XIII.What the Bush Robin Saw[65]
XIV.The Robbery of the Mails[68]
XV.Dealing Mostly with Money[73]
XVI.The Wages of Sin[77]
XVII.Rachel’s Wiles[81]
XVIII.Digging[83]
XIX.A Den of Thieves[86]
XX.Gold and Roses[91]
XXI.The Foundation of the Gold League[96]
XXII.Women’s Ways[101]
XXIII.Forewarned, Forearmed[108]
XXIV.The Goldsmith Comes to Town[112]
XXV.Fishing[119]
XXVI.A Small, but Important Link in the Story[124]
XXVII.The Signal-Tree[127]
XXVIII.The Goldsmith Comes to Town the Second Time[130]
XXIX.Amiria Plays her Highest Card in the Game of Love[134]
XXX.In Tresco’s Cave[139]
XXXI.The Perturbations of the Bank Manager[145]
XXXII.The Quietude of Timber Town is Disturbed[147]
XXXIII.The Gold League Washes Up[150]
XXXIV.The Goldsmith Comes to Town the Third Time[153]
XXXV.Bail[156]
XXXVI.In Durance Vile[160]
XXXVII.Benjamin’s Redemption[164]
XXXVIII.The Way to Manage the Law[173]
XXXIX.Tresco Makes the Ring[178]
Epilogue[183]