Adventure of the Broad Arrow An Australian Romance

Excerpt: “"It''s possible to be damned without being dead," said Smith, as he drank his nobbler at the Pilbarra Hotel. "And miners are the men who know it, in such a place as this." He looked out of the reeking bar-room on the light brown glare of waterless desert, with a few thirsty trees scattered over it. "We''re in the pit, so to speak," he continued, "but not the lowest, for there are drinks ...