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The Colonel's Secret single work   short story  
Note: Author of 'Looking Back'; 'Confessed at Last'; 'Pierce Charlton's Wives'; 'Standing at Bay'; 'Surely a Dream' etc. (PB)
Issue Details: First known date: 1881... 1881 The Colonel's Secret
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Tragedy of an English officer retired to Victoria who lives in seclusion with his sister. The local doctor is finally consulted when she has a fit of insanity and discovers the cause is the brutal breach of their engagement by her fiancee and his subsequent execution by her brother in a duel. Touching (and a little disturbing) portrait of brotherly/sisterly love. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 17 no. 196 September 1881 Z1040864 1881 periodical issue 1881 pg. 15-20
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