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Hell's Hatches

by Lewis R. Freeman

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CHAPTER I A REPUTATION QUESTIONED in the Queensland and New South Wales papers LANT ALLEN and I, between us, had been monopolizing a good share of the feature space for a week or morbe as the Hero-Ticket-of-Leave- Man and I as the gifted Franco-American painter whose brilIiant South Sea marines have taken the Australian art world by storm-and now that it was definitely reported that he had Ieft Brisbane on his way to connect with the reception the boyhood home from which he had been shipped in disgrace five years before had prepared for him, I knew it was but a matter of hours before he wouId ...

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