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Mick would make no promises; but declared his intention of trying very hard. 'If anybody'd knock me down as soon as I goes a yard off the claim, that'd be best. And so they renewed their work, and at the end of six weeks from the commencement of their operations sold nine ounces of gold to the manager of the little branch bank which had already established itself at Ahalala.
There was always 'grub' at one, and 'grub' at seven, and 'grub' at eight in the morning. So one of the men informed them. The same gentleman hoped that the strangers were not very particular, as the 'grub, though plentiful was apt to be rough of its kind. 'You'll have it a deal worse before you've done if you're going on to Ahalala, said another.
A man goes to Ahalala because he wants to run his chance, and get a big haul. It's every one on his own bottom pretty much at Ahalala. 'Wages be ! said Jack Brien, rising from the seat and hitching up his trousers as he left the room. It was very evident that Jack Brien was a gambler. After dinner there was a smoke, and after the smoke Dick Shand 'shouted' for the company.
Its intention was to show that, looking at probabilities, and judging from all that was known, there was much more reason to suppose that there had been no marriage at Ahalala than that there had been one.
The very next day chance brought to Ahalala one who had been a passenger on board the Goldfinder; and the man, hearing of the success of Shand and Caldigate came to see them. 'Of course you know, said the man, 'what your fellow-passenger is doing down at Sydney? Dick Shand, who was present, replied that they had heard nothing of any fellow-passenger.
The Squire had never been hot against the offender, having been one of those who fancied that a marriage at a very out-of-the-way place such as Ahalala did not signify much.
Ahalala was twenty-three miles from Nobble, and a coach had been established through the bush for the benefit of miners going to the diggings; but Mick was of opinion that miners ought to walk, with their swag on their backs, when the distance was not more than forty miles.
The woman was closely veiled, so that he could not see a feature of her face; but he knew her figure well, and he remembered the other woman who had been half-companion half-servant to Euphemia Smith when she had come up to the diggings, and who had been with her both at Ahalala and at Nobble. The woman's name, as he now brought to mind, was Anna Young.
Mick pleaded hard for one bout of drinking during the month; but when Dick explained that one bout might last for the entire time, he acknowledged that the objection was reasonable and assented to the terms proposed. Ahalala It was all settled that night, and some necessary purchases made.
Allan, a Wesleyan minister, at Ahalala, that the marriage took place in a tent belonging, as she believed, to Mr. Crinkett, and that Crinkett, Adamson, and Anna Young were all present at the marriage. Then the three persons thus named had taken their oaths and made their depositions to the same effect.
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