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Updated: May 24, 2025
"He has been what you call on the break-out with opium ever so many days. He has attacks that way. Takes a fit of it just as some of your people take to the drink. He's coming out of it, now and he'll be very, very unhappy tomorrow." The Inspector twisted round on the informant. "Look here!" he said. "Do you know how long he's been here stupifying himself? Is it a day or days?"
Well, we struck the river about ten miles this side of Cunnamulla, where there was a roadside inn, a small, miserable kind of place, just one of those half-shanties, half-public-houses, fit for nothing but to trap bushmen, and where the bad grog kills more men in a year than a middling break-out of fever. Somewhere about here I expected to hear of the other two.
The tumultuous rush and roar of swollen and rapid water came from the darkness behind them. "There's been another break-out somewhere, and I reckon the bridge has got all it can do to-night to keep itself out of water without taking us over. At least, as I promised to set you down at your wife's door inside of the hour, I don't propose to try."
There was Moncrieff of Tippermalloch, that was Popish, and the laird of Carslogie, a kend Queen's man, were in the fair, with wha kend how mony swords and bucklers at their back; and they would be sure to make a break-out if the officers meddled with the auld Popish witch-wife, who was sae weel friended; mair especially as the laird's best men, such as were not in the castle, were in Edinburgh with him, and he doubted his honour the Doctor would find ower few to make a good backing, if blades were bare."
By the end of the week Laban declared the fight won for the time. "You've pulled me through the fust tussle, Al," he said. "I shan't desert now, not till the next break-out, anyhow. I cal'late it'll get me harder than ever then. Harder than ever yes, yes. And you won't be here to help me, neither." "Never mind; I shall be thinking of you, Labe. And I know you're going to win.
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