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Brodribb pacing the platform in a state of extreme dejection. He brightened up somewhat when he saw us, and wrung our hands with emotional heartiness. "It was very good of you both to come at a moment's notice," he said warmly, "and I feel your kindness very much. You understood, of course, Thorndyke?" "Yes," Thorndyke replied. "I suppose the mandarin beckoned to him." Mr.
It was not a dark night, and had we been seen assembling all would have been lost. There was some scattered shelling, and Lieut. Brodribb, commanding "A" Company, was wounded in the leg. He had it dressed at the R.A.P., and, finding he could still walk, rejoined his Company before the advance began. In absolute silence we lay in shell holes waiting for Zero.
Brodribb, "it's the most infamous, cowardly plot I have ever heard of. They shall go to gaol for it, the villains, as sure as I am alive." But in this Mr.
I prefer to believe in things which obviously exist, even though I cannot explain them. It is the humbler and, I think, the wiser attitude." "But, my dear Fred," protested Mr. Brodribb, "this is a rank fairy-tale." Calverley turned upon the solicitor. "If you had seen what I have seen, you would not only believe: you would know." "Tell us what you have seen, then," said Mr. Brodribb.
We entered the room, and Mr. Brodribb followed on tiptoe, looking about him fearfully, and casting awe-struck glances at the shrouded form on the bed. To the latter Thorndyke advanced, and gently drew back the sheet. "You'd better not look, Brodribb," said he, as he bent over the corpse.
"Brodribb and Hobson came here over the mountains with four Port Phillip blacks, and they decided to look for a better way by the coast. I landed them and their four blacks at the head of Corner Inlet. They were attacked by the Western Port blacks near the River Tarwin, but they frightened them away by firing their guns.
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