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ghosts in The Last Chance

YEAR
1905
PLACE
Western Australia
SOURCE
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ghosts in The Last Chance

re. Their gait was slow and faltering; with weak, tremulous steps they seemed as though doubtful of their ability to reach the point from which to survey the ocean—to look, if better was not to be had, upon the highway to freedom, and that outer world, from which they had been severed once and for…

Record ID
2,594
Year
1,905
Source
Project Gutenberg
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Record ID
2594
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West; Rolf Boldrewood
Published
1905; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
ghosts
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Western Australia (WA): B
State or territory
WA
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re. Their gait was slow and faltering; with weak, tremulous steps they seemed as though doubtful of their ability to reach the point from which to survey the ocean—to look, if better was not to be had, upon the highway to freedom, and that outer world, from which they had been severed once and for ever. They might well have passed for a company of gibbering ghosts on the bank of that dark Lethean stream where earthly joys and sorrows cease. As the strange band neared the shore, the cries, the moaning, unintelligible chorus seemed to deepen in intensity, and once a scream as of agony unendurable rent the air. ‘Hell’s gate open now,.

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