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Updated: June 11, 2025
The man had spoken of Ailleen; he had claimed the robbery from Leary's hut; he had boasted how he had stolen the child from its mother and left it at Taylor's Flat and Nuggan had told him to ask next time he was at the Flat who Mrs. Garry was and what she could tell.
I understand, and I'll just tell you this, and then we'll say no more about it for the present I am very pleased to hear it." Ailleen looked at her in surprise. "Pleased, Mrs. Dickson?" she asked. "Yes, my dear, very, very pleased, and I quite understand how you look at it; and now let us say no more about it, till well, till the proper time comes."
"Tell him to go away. Tell him to go away," she said hurriedly to Ailleen. "I want Willy. I want my boy. Where is my boy?" Ailleen, meaning only to sign to Tony not to speak again, waved her hand towards him as she bent over Mrs. Dickson.
But a man is not much use as a matchmaker, and whenever he did try to suggest anything of the kind to Ailleen, she had nothing but laughter and raillery for him in reply.
She looked across at it with eyes that were dim and moist; but it was not the memory it recalled that made her emotion come welling up. The look that had been in Tony's eyes as he turned away, the change that had come over his face as she asked her purposely pointed questions, and the recollection of the fair face of Ailleen and the crafty meanness of Dickson's, all combined to stir her feelings.
With all these eliminated, the world of a white woman on a station is not likely to be particularly large nor especially attractive; and so the advent of Ailleen at Barellan put a fresh interest, and a kindly interest, into the blind woman's life.
"But, Ailleen " he began, and stopped, looking hard at her face, turned half away from him in her anxiety to avoid meeting his glance. "We've found gold," he went on presently, after a few moments' silence. "Not much, but still enough to enough for us. When I've got enough when I come back after this trip if I "
She freed her arm from his. "Show me," she said to Tony, holding his arm tightly; and he gently led her on to the verandah and up to the chair Ailleen moved forward for her. "Thank you," she said quietly. "Thank you;" and then, speaking as though with an effort, she asked, "Who are you?" "This is Tony Taylor my my friend," Ailleen said quickly.
The simple story of her life Ailleen told saving any reference to the absent Tony and the blind woman caught with swift sympathy at the fact that she was motherless, and might at any moment be fatherless also. "And you have no relatives no friends?" she asked gently. "Oh, heaps of friends, but no relatives," the girl answered. "And if supposing you were left alone "
Over the whole distance between the school-house and the solitary Three-mile he walked on, brooding and bitter. The action of the woman who turned from him when she first saw him after her arrival at Birralong, came to be viewed in a less charitable light than it was when he spoke of it to Ailleen.
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