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200 POUNDS REWARD Gregory Carter, sometimes known as Nightfall Carter, having been outlawed by Her Majesty's Government of the Colony of Victoria for breaking gaol and committing various offences that endanger the lives and safety of Her Majesty's lieges, the above reward is offered for his body, alive or dead. He is thirty years of age, six feet high, fair hair, blue eyes, good-looking, and has a scar on his right cheek. A reward of 5 pounds will be paid to anyone giving notice of his whereabouts at the police camp, Deadman's. BY ORDER. JOCELYN RUTHVEN, Gold Commissioner.
-"Alive or dead," repeated the man who was reading it in the waning light, and then he laughed softly to himself. "Good-looking? Am I good-looking? Well, my poor old mother thought I was, thinks so still, perhaps, and Rosalie made no bones about telling me so," and he swore feelingly. "Alive or dead, alive or dead! Well, it will be dead, Your Majesty, it will be dead, Jocelyn Ruthven; that you may swear to."