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There were many things which we had to say that we did not like to discuss before the inspector, so that when he arose to go, we felt thankful. We then drew up articles of partnership, and gave Smith an order to get the gold which we had stored at the old stockman's, and to take a certain portion of it to buy goods, and deposit the remainder to our order in the Melbourne Bank.
Won't you go and see if she is able to get up?" Mrs. Harrington rose stiffly. "Oh, certainly, if you wish it. But I think it is a great mistake. She really ought to have considered the children, and " The head stockman's wife met her at the door, and looking past her mistress, spoke to Harrington in terrified tones "Miss Alleyne is dead, sir!" Harrington sprang from his chair. "Dead, Mrs.
The stockman's eyes had grown hard. "I think Keller's covering his own tracks. Of course we've got no direct proof, but " "We have," she broke in. "I can't see it. According to Jim Yeager " "Jim lied. I asked him to." "You what?" "I asked him to say that this man had come there to work for him. Jim was not to blame." "But why?" She threw out a gesture of self-contempt. "Why did I do it?
"We are agreed," I replied, pressing the stockman's hand: and as we did so, a vision of his services rose before us, and amply rewarded us for the slight sacrifice which we had made. "Now," cried the stockman, "we are friends again; and to prove that I am such, before noon I will place in your hands the bag of gold which we came so near losing night before last"
Only Dan and the inevitable black "boy" were to be with us on this preliminary walk-about; but all hands were to turn out for the muster, to the Quiet Stockman's dismay. "Thought they mostly sat about and sewed," he said in the quarters. Little did the Sanguine Scot guess what he was doing when he "culled" needlework from the "mob" at Pine Creek.
Garrison's carriage had not come that way. "But," said he, "the wagon with the lady's baggage did. I saw the name on the trunks." The colonel turned in saddle and coolly surveyed him. "Do you mean Mrs. Stockman's name?" he asked in quiet tone. "How many trunks were there?" "Oh, some of them might have had Mrs. Stockman's name, sir; but the two or three that I saw were marked M. G."
The wind catches the quivering crimson streak, and for awhile the flames race, as I have seen wild horses, neck to neck, rush through the saltbush plains at the sound of the stockman's whip. Then, as the wind drops, the flames curl caressingly around the wealth of growing fodder, biting the grass low down, and wrapping it in a mantle of black and red, as flame and smoke commingle.
Norah's was only a light whip, half the length and weight of the one her father carried. It was beautifully plaited a special piece of work, out of a special hide; while the handle was a triumph of the stockman's art.
So the dialogue goes on for hours without either party dropping dead. There is an element of danger in dealing with cattle that makes men smart and self-reliant and independent. Men who deal with sheep get gloomy and morbid, and are for ever going on strike. Nobody ever heard of a stockman's strike.
We were about to dismount, and post our sentinels, when I heard a deep bay in the direction of the stockman's hut, which recalled to my mind the many scenes through which Fred and myself had passed since the same sound had first broken upon our ears. "Do you hear any thing?" I asked, of my companion, pausing to listen. "No," he replied; "why do you inquire?"
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