The North Shore Mystery

by Henry Fletcher

This etext was transcribed by Les Bowler

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THE NORTH SHORE
MYSTERY

BY
HENRY FLETCHER

LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIMITED
PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1899

CONTENTS

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	THE CRIME	[1]
II.	THE MISFORTUNES OF A B.A. OF LONDON UNIVERSITY	[8]
III.	MRS. HOBBS	[13]
IV.	THE BOARDING-HOUSE AND BOARDERS	[18]
V.	CONSTABLE HOBBS DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF	[32]
VI.	MRS. BOOTH COMMITTED FOR TRIAL	[46]
VII.	LOOKING BACKWARD-WINDSOR	[64]
VIII.	THE TWO LOVERS	[71]
IX.	HUEY AND ALEC	[80]
X.	THE GOLDEN BAR	[92]
XI.	HOW TO START IN BUSINESS	[97]
XII.	ALEC AND HUEY START BUSINESS	[106]
XIII.	THE HAWKESBURY HANDICAP	[116]
XIV.	THE TRIAL	[124]
XV.	THE PARRAMATTA RIVER	[134]
XVI.	THE WEIGHTS FOR THE SYDNEY CUP	[141]
XVII.	THE RELIGIOUS JOCKEY	[147]
XVIII.	THE NIGHT BEFORE THE RACE	[156]
XIX.	THE SYDNEY CUP	[166]
XX.	A PROPOSAL	[173]
XXI.	THE ABDUCTION	[180]
XXII.	IN THE GARDENS	[197]
XXIII.	THE LOVERS	[205]
XXIV.	THE CONSPIRACY	[213]
XXV.	THE HEART UNION	[225]
XXVI.	UP TO DATE AGAIN-DARLINGHURST GAOL	[231]
XXVII.	MR. HOBBS AT TEA	[236]
XXVIII.	SOFT SAM	[243]
XXIX.	HOW MASTER HOBBS GOT HIS BALL FROM A NEIGHBOUR’S YARD	[251]
XXX	THE ‘SOUTHERN CROSS’	[259]

CHAPTER I
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—