Aaron Sherritt--A Disappointment--At Mrs. Byrne's--A Twenty-five-day Watch--Manufacturing Brands--Sherritt's Revenge--A Letter from Joe Byrne--Whorouly Races--On Watch at Mrs. Sherritt's--Mrs. Byrne's Discovery--Break-up of the Camp--Arrest of Kelly Sympathizers--A Dynamite Scare--Aaron jilted 159 CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Skillian's Hoax--A False Alarm--Searching the Warby Ranges--Among the Kelly Sympathizers--Ill and dispirited--The Tenant of the Haystack--Relieved after Eight Months' Camping Duty 203 CHAPTER X. Black Trackers--Again in Charge with _carte blanche_--Aaron Sherritt's Doom--The Beginning of the End--Glenrowan--Sticking up the Hotel--Bracken's Escape--The Police on the Alert--A Dangerous Journey--Mr. Curnow's Adventure 227 CHAPTER XI. The Attack on the Hotel--Wounded 267 CHAPTER XII. From _The Age_ Newspaper, 29th June, 1880--The Start--The Journey--A Timely Warning--The Gang surprised--Death of Byrne--Capture of Ned Kelly--His Statement--The Prisoners released--Renewal of the Fight 274 CHAPTER XIII. From _The Age_ (continued). Mrs. Skillian comes on the Scene--The Hotel fired--Rescue of Sherry--Fate of Dan Kelly and Hart--Statement of Various Prisoners made by the Gang--The Incident of the Cannon 291 CHAPTER XIV. The Outlaws' Plans--Execution of Ned Kelly--Habits and Customs of the Gang--Katie Kelly's behaviour--Kelly's distrust of Hart--The Cost of the Destruction of the Gang 315 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. NED KELLY _Frontispiece_ DAN KELLY _To face page_ 94 AARON SHERRITT " 140 JOE BYRNE " 192 STEVE HART " 240 NIGHT ATTACK ON THE GLENROWAN HOTEL " 270 NED KELLY IN HIS ARMOUR " 284 GROUP TAKEN DURING THE FIGHT " 308 THE LAST OF THE BUSHRANGERS. CHAPTER I. Introductory Remarks--Birth--Early Days at the Diggings--Unlicensed Diggers--Attacked by Fever--Keeping a Store.