The Rogue's March
THE ROGUE'S MARCH
A ROMANCE
BY
E. W. HORNUNG
AUTHOR OF "IRRALIE'S BUSHRANGER," "A BRIDE FROM
THE BUSH," ETC.
"As for the chain-gangs, you oft-times hear them jingling half-a-mile away, and 'tis nigh all the music we get, a kind of Rogue's March, to remind as where we are, and why we came."
Extract from Convict's Letter.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To
RICHARD DOWLING
PREFACE
A few friends, who were kind enough to follow “The Rogue’s March” from week to week in its serial course, would have me add foot-notes on the ground that this story, though by no means founded upon facts, is nevertheless largely built up of them. I have, however, my own prejudice against foot-notes to fiction—and I understand that Notes at the end are never read. I may therefore state at the outset that the Newgate scenes are as near the truth as I have been able to make them, with the aid of sundry Parliamentary papers, supplemented by the very kindly assistance of (I believe) the first living authority on the subject. And a certain “broadsheet” is still in existence as described and quoted, with its vile verses, and its illiterate but circumstantial account of the execution of a man who was not executed.
As to the Transportation details, they have been gleaned partly from the Blue-book published in 1837, partly from the New South Wales Calendar and the Sydney newspapers of those days, and partly from an admirable work by Mr. Charles White, of Bathurst, N.S.W. To this gentleman’s “Convict Life” (which should be published in the old country too) I owe the experiences of the First Fleeter, with other items which I think must bear the stamp of flagrant fact.
E. W. H.
- August, 1896.
PART I.—THE OLD COUNTRY
page "Sudden Death" 1 The Other Lives 9 The New Lover 18 The Old Love 24 A Bloodless Victory 34 A Kind World 42 A Guilty Innocent 50 Hue And Cry 56 A Good Samaritan 63 At Avenue Lodge 73 Coals of Fire 82 Wheel within Wheel 90 A Forlorn Hope 97 Old Newgate 104 Interim 117 The Trial Opens 131 End OF the Trial 143 The Recorder's Report 155 The Royal Mercy 160 Sealed Lips 171 PART II.—THE LAND OF BONDAGE
An Assigned Servant 184 Castle Sullivan 201 The Last Straw 215 The Court-house 224 The Lock-up 236 The Little Grey Man 247 Adventures of a Substitute 263 The Outer Darkness 277 Light at Last 292 PART III.—MASTER AND MAN
"The Noble Unknown" 307 The Course of the "Rosamund" 317 A Marriage Market 326 The Ship Comes In 336 The Bride-Elect 342 A Meddler 348 Side-Lights 354 Farm Cove 361 Two Farewells 366 The Man in the Mask 373 Madness and Crime 385 "For London Direct" 396
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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