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'Never mind, Dick, old man, said Harry kindly, 'it's all UP. 'All up? cried Dick. 'Yes, I know why you went to Yarraman; but it's been a wasted journey, Dick. Shine was arrested a couple of hours ago, an' she's broken hearted. Dick received the news in silence, and they walked homewards together. 'What'll I do with this? asked Dick at Hardy's gate, producing a parcel from under his vest.
At dinner-time he heard that she had been driven into Yarraman by Jock Summers to be near her father; the fact that she had left him without a word or a line seemed to confirm his worst suspicion, and again her words, 'I deceived them all. I lied to everybody, returned to mock him.
Harry was below, but he hastened to answer the boy's message. He had dreamed of a sudden repentance on his sweetheart's part, and his heart beat fast as Dick beckoned him away from McKnight, who was at the windlass. 'She's gone away, said the boy eagerly. 'Chris away? Where's she gone? 'She's goin' to Melbourne going fer years an' years. Mr. Summers is drivin' her into Yarraman now.
I fell gettin' over the fence an' sneaked into a hollow tree, an' saw 'em snavel him. 'Here's one of 'em' said one, an' they put him on a horse an' tied his legs under its belly, an' they've gone into Yarraman with him. 'Gee-rusalem! An' what'd he say? gasped Dick. 'Nothin' 'sept 'Oh, crickey! 'Well, he won't split on us.
He made no further calls at the homestead to inquire after Christina, but heard from Dick that she had not returned to Waddy, but was staying in Yarraman till after the trial. Mrs.
'Where it'd been for half the shift, the billy hanging in a dark drive where any man below might 'a 'got at it. 'They found gold in a little box-place made in the heel of one of his workin' boots. 'A boot that was always left in the boiler-house when he was off work. 'He had sold coarse water-worn gold to a Jew at Yarraman. 'Yes, I know, I know.
Dick was taken away in Manager Holden's trap and lodged in gaol at Yarraman; and when the news leaked out, as it did towards evening, Waddy had a new sensation, and quite the most startling one in its experience. Before the women went to bed that night they had found Dick guilty of robbing the Silver Stream of thousands of ounces of gold and perpetrating a murderous assault on Harry Hardy.
From here had been blasted the thousands of tons of rock that went to the building of that grim prison in Yarraman, the town where Frank Hardy lay, a good half-day's tramp across the wide flat country faced by the township The quarry, too, was overgrown again; being almost inaccessible to Wilson's cattle its undergrowth was rank and high, and as it was sheltered from the sun's rays and watered in part by a tiny spring, it was often the one green oasis in a weary land of crackling yellow and drab.
It was Dick Haddon, very frightened apparently, and ablaze with excitement. 'Don't fight, don't fight! he cried. ''Twas me took the goats, an' the troopers're comin'! Look, the troopers! Sure enough, far off across the level country leading down to Yarraman, a small body of mounted police could be seen riding at a canter towards Waddy, their swords and cap-peaks glittering in the sun.
You Cow Flat min, too, down wid 'em! Look it here the troopers is comin'. Shine have infor-rmed on us in Yarraman. Moind, now, this is jist a bit of divarsion we've been havin'. The Waddy men had dropped their weapons, so also had most of their foes, and all gathered closer about Devoy. 'T'row away thim shticks, he yelled. 'D'ye want tin years fer riot, an' murther, an' dish turbin' the peace?
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