| Preface. | |
| Chapter 1: | The Broken Window. |
| Chapter 2: | The Poisoned Dog. |
| Chapter 3: | The Burglary At The Squire's. |
| Chapter 4: | The Trial. |
| Chapter 5: | Not Guilty! |
| Chapter 6: | On The Voyage. |
| Chapter 7: | Gratitude. |
| Chapter 8: | A Gale. |
| Chapter 9: | Two Offers. |
| Chapter 10: | An Up-Country District. |
| Chapter 11: | The Black Fellows. |
| Chapter 12: | The Bush Rangers. |
| Chapter 13: | Bush Rangers. |
| Chapter 14: | An Unexpected Meeting. |
| Chapter 15: | At Donald's. |
| Chapter 16: | Jim's Report. |
| Chapter 17: | In Pursuit. |
| Chapter 18: | Settling Accounts. |
| Reuben Whitney Acquitted of the Charge of Burglary. |
| The Ladies Saved from the Malay's Crease. |
| A Fight with the Black Fellows. |
| Jim Notes the Bush Rangers' Plans for Mischief. |
In this tale I have left the battlefields of history, and havewritten a story of adventure in Australia, in the early days whenthe bush rangers and the natives constituted a real and formidabledanger to the settlers. I have done this, not with the intention ofextending your knowledge, or even of pointing a moral, although thestory is not without one; but simply for a change—a change bothfor you and myself, but frankly, more for myself than for you. Youknow the old story of the boy who bothered his brains with Euclid,until he came to dream regularly that he was an equilateraltriangle enclosed in a circle. Well, I feel that unless I breakaway sometimes from history, I shall be haunted day and night byvisions of men in armour, and soldiers of all ages and times