Bracelet of the Morning

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Charles Atherstone, a threadbare poster artist from a Brighton carnival, joins the diamond rush, only to find on arrival at Cape Town that he has insufficient funds to pay the coach fare to the diggings - a journey of some seven hundred miles. An unsuspecting dreamer, he is the perfect mark for Fleetwood Erskine Tucker, a gentleman thief with an urgent need to escape the law. He pays for Charles’s fare by ox-wagon in exchange for carrying a suspicious-looking parcel as a red herring. Delighted by his good fortune, Charles joins the Boer and his two Africans on the trek. His relief is short-lived. By the time he reaches the diggings two months later, he has suffered heat stroke, been attacked by angry baboons, knocked unconscious during a wagon stampede to waterby thirst-crazed oxen, become lost in the bush, set upon by safe-robbers, then shot in the foot by the Boer’s fiery and headstrong daughter. Further disillusionment awaits him at the river when he is confronted by several hundred tents, and discovers that the diamonds are not simply lying on the surface waiting to be picked up as he had been led to believe. He has no option but to work for other diggers while saving the money to return to England.

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