Uncle Gustav’s Ghosts by Colin Thiele moonta Selection did not immediately follow Selection did not immediately follow these Acts and the real clash between squatters and selectors did not come until the start of mechanization and railway building removed natural obstacles to agriculture in the 1880s Between the boy and the man is a perfect relationship – each is a kind of guardian companion to the other Benny Geister’s Uncle Gustav meets the first Unseen Presence on the Bethel road near the place where Maria Rollenberg and Marcus Kreutzer mysteriously disappeared on their wedding night half a century before by Colin Thiele