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"Peter, hurry home quickly. I need you." Four months after Polly Chase married an Australian, Peter, he went off to the War. Now, five years later, she is still waiting for his return. Coming back from town to her farm she encounters an itinerant, Colm Stawell, and lends him a needed hand. In gratitude he gives her a blue opal, alive with the sparkling "fire" that makes the best opals so valuable. He stays on as protection because her friend Maggie was attacked by no-goods. His friend David Kulgarra, an Aborigine, joins the party. When Colm seeks his fortune in the opal fields up north, Polly goes there as well to sell her handmade lace…