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'Dave, will you come? said Ken. 'Will a terrier hunt rats? was Dave's answer. 'And I want Roy Horan, sergeant, if he's alive. He's a New Zealander. 'Pass the word for Horan, said the sergeant, and the whisper went rapidly down the long trench. 'Who'll be the fourth? Ken asked of Dave. 'Take Dick Norton. He's a Queensland ex-trooper.
The ex-trooper was questioning, in a dreamy way, whether he had ever before seen such a pretty and agreeable specimen of girlhood, when he experienced a shock of surprise on observing that Jean had gone to a neighbouring spring for water and was making something very like a signal to him to follow her.
"Is that the `Soldiers Friend?" asked Simkin, in a whisper, of a man who stood near him, as a lady came on the platform and took the chair. "Ay, that's her," answered the man and the speaker was Thomas Tufnell, the ex-trooper of the Queen's Bays, and the present manager of the Institute "Ay, that's the `Soldier's Friend."
"This" it was for him to make known, yet in so doing he might betray himself and the purpose of his coming, and so undo every hope and plan he had made. There was no Toomey to help him now no devoted ex-trooper and friend to back him. Engineer, fireman, conductor, and brakemen, every man of the crew had to be at his post as the freight panted away up the winding mountain road.
"Ye may be sure o' that, for when there is work to be done for the Master, Donal' Cargill doesna let the gress grow under his feet." "I'm sorry that I shall not see him again," returned the ex-trooper in a tone of regret, "for I like him much."
During one of Tom's many absences ex-trooper George was chief assistant in the administration of the affairs of the Island, between whom and Christmas cordial companionship was manifested; for George, in his understanding of horses, knew how to flatter and gratify Christmas with small attentions.
'Tricked! cried the ex-trooper, jumping to his feet tricked by the great Blue Bunyip! Tricked like a kid! He turned and ran for the troopers. 'I surmise Mr. Solo was lurkin' behind them there whiskers, said a tall, thin Californian, when the party had somewhat recovered the surprise. Jim started, recalling the encounter with Long Aleck in the Melbourne bar.
Thorn threw his, and the stranger caught it smartly, and juggled with the two. Brigalow Dick, the gold-buyer, rode up. A particularly bright ex-trooper from Sydney, Brigalow Dick had a reputation as a safe man, and the horse he rode was one of the finest on the field.
But I understand your feelin's, lad, for I'm a man o' peace by natur', an' would gladly submit to injustice to keep things quiet if possable; but some things are no' possable, an' the Bible itsel' says we're to live peaceably wi' a' men only `as much as in us lies." The ex-trooper was silent.
The moon lacked two nights of being full and two more days would have seen him climbing up the fourteen-mile rock road that leads up the purple flanks of Abu, when the ex-trooper of Irregulars cantered from a dust cloud, caught up Mahommed Gunga, who was riding, as usual, in the rear, and handed him the sword. He held it out with both hands.
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