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Updated: May 18, 2025
'That envelope is so unfortunate, said the lawyer. 'Most unfortunate. 'Perhaps we shall get some one before the day comes who will tell the jury that any marriage up at Ahalala must have been a farce. All this was unsatisfactory, and became so more and more as the weeks went by.
The conversation was ended by a declaration on the part of Caldigate that they would take a week to think over Mr. Crinkett's kind proposition, and that they might as well occupy the time by taking a look at Ahalala. A place that had been so much praised and so much abused must be worth seeing. 'Who's been a-praising it, asked Crinkett, angrily, 'unless it's that fool Jones?
There might have been a letter from Plymouth, but no letter came. And then the months went by slowly. The son did not write from Melbourne, nor from Nobble, nor from Ahalala till gold had been found.
Sir John Joram began by holding, extended in his fingers towards the jury, the envelope which had undoubtedly been addressed by Caldigate to 'Mrs. Caldigate, Ahalala, Nobble, and in which a certain letter had been stated to have been sent by him to her.
She gave her evidence very clearly, and with great composure, saying how she had become acquainted with the man on board the ship; how she had been engaged to him at Melbourne; how he had come down to her at Sydney; how, in compliance with his orders, she had followed him up to Ahalala; and how she had there been married to him by Mr. Allan.
That's where it is; and the mayn'ts are a deal oftener turning up than the mays. 'A man can get work for wages, suggested Dick. 'Wages! What's the use of that? A man as knows mining can earn wages. But Ahalala aint a place for wages. If you want wages, go to one of the old-fashioned places, Bendigo, or the like of that. I've worked for wages, but what comes of it?
Mick on the morrow was to proceed to Ahalala with his new comrades, and was to remain with them for a month, assisting them in all their views; and for this he was to receive ten shillings a-day. But, in the event of his getting drunk, he was to be liable to dismissal at once.
The old squire's visit to the office had not seemed to himself to be satisfactory, but he had made a friend for himself in Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown looked into the matter, and was of opinion that it would be well to pardon the young man. Even though there had been some jumping over a broomstick at Ahalala, why should things not be made comfortable here at home?
'Half-crowns don't go very far here, my mate. If you can spend four or five pounds a-week each for the next month, so as to get help till you know where you are, it may be you'll turn up gold at Ahalala; but if not, you'd better go elsewhere. You needn't be afraid. We ain't a-going to rob you of nothing. 'Nor yet we don't want nothing to drink, said another.
'It has paid; not a doubt about it. Whether it's played out or not, I'm not so sure. But Ahalala is a working-man's diggings, not a master's, such as Crinkett is now. Of course Crinkett has a down on Ahalala. 'Your friend Jack Brien didn't seem to think much of the place, said Dick. 'Poor Jack is one of them who never has a stroke of luck.
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