[Illustration: He struck, and lo! a yellow streak became plainly visible. “Boys, ... I believe we’ve found a nugget.”--_Chap._ XI.] A stout gentleman of middle age and two boys were sitting in the public room of a modest inn in Melbourne. The gentleman was known to the public as Professor Hemmenway, who announced himself on the programme of his entertainment as “The Magician of Madagascar,” though he freely confessed to his confidential friends that he had never seen the island of that name.…
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