Australia Revenged

by Boomerang

"Boomerang" is the joint nom-de-plume of a Young Australian and his collaborator.

B.

London, October, 1894.

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CONTENTS.

I	THE DETLIJ CLUB	[1]
II	CONFIDENCES	[14]
III	THE MIA-MIA	[26]
IV	THE BALL	[38]
V	THE OATH	[48]
VI	REVENGE	[63]
VII	HAL	[79]
VIII	ADELAIDE	[94]
IX	MELBOURNE	[114]
X	CABBIES	[128]
XI	LAUNCESTON	[144]
XII	GOODCHILD'S	[156]
XIII	PORT ARTHUR	[170]
XIV	EASTELLA	[182]
XV	MAY	[192]
XVI	HOBART	[203]
XVII	SYDNEY	[214]
XVIII	THE GIRLS	[222]
XIX	HIL	[232]
XX	BRISBANE	[242]
XXI	TOOWOOMBA	[254]
XXII	DALBY	[269]
XXIII	CAMPING OUT	[283]
XXIV	FRED PHILAMORE	[294]
XXV	BLUE GUMS	[306]
XXVI	MARJORIE WILLIAMSON	[319]
XXVII	FOILED	[332]
XXVIII	PREPARATIONS	[343]
XXIX	EAR-MARKED	[354]
XXX	THE TRIAL	[367]
XXXII	CONCLUSION	[383]
XXXI	THE VERDICT	[377]
	[APPENDIX]

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CHAPTER I.
THE DETLIJ CLUB.

In a handsome block of buildings in the neighbourhood of Piccadilly—a phrase which may embrace a considerable area, North, South, East or West—is located the quarters of that small and extremely select Club, known, and known up till now only to a favoured few, as the Detlij Club. The name, like the Club itself, is an uncommon one, and is simply indicative of the sad mischance which must befal each member before he can qualify for admission. No mysterious or secret rites were shadowed in the title, and the ultra-curious in search of the origin of the name, need no more overhaul their Hindu or Persian dictionaries, than they need their Liddell and Scott. A simple inversion of the letters is all that is necessary to solve the riddle, a process which discovers the word "jilted," and discloses the character of the Club.