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CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
A COLONIAL REFORMER
A
COLONIAL REFORMER
BY
ROLF BOLDREWOOD
AUTHOR OF ‘ROBBERY UNDER ARMS,’ ‘THE SQUATTER’S DREAM,’
‘THE MINER’S RIGHT,’ ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1890
All rights reserved
1
CHAPTER I
When Mr. Ernest Neuchamp, younger, of Neuchampstead,Bucks, quitted the ancient roof-tree of his race, for adeliberate conflict with fortune, in a far land, he carriedwith him a purpose which went far to neutralise doubtand depression.
A crusader rather than a colonist, his lofty aimsembraced far more than the ordinary sordid strugglewith unkind nature, with reluctant success. Such mightbe befitting aspirations for eager and rude adventurers,half speculators, half buccaneers. They might fitlystrive and drive—bargain and save—gamble, overreach,overwork themselves and one another, as he doubted notall colonists did in their proverbially hurried, feverishlives. But for a Neuchamp, of Neuchampstead, wasreserved more chivalric exertion—a