In Search of the Castaways Book Two Chapter XI - Crime or Calamity

In which the travellers are delayed by the necessity of repairing their wagon with the aid of a grim and taciturn blacksmith from Black Point Station, before resuming their journey through the changing Australian landscape towards the gold districts. Their progress is interrupted by the grim aftermath of a railway disaster, where suspicion falls upon a gang of escaped convicts, revealing a dark undercurrent beneath the colonial tranquillity.