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And the revival of Chinkie's Flat, and the new rushes all round about it, have added very materially to the wealth of this town." After a little further conversation, Grainger went back to the Queen's Hotel, where Mallard was to call at three o'clock. Myra Grainger, a small, slenderly-built girl of nineteen, looked up as he entered the sitting-room. "Any success, Ted?"
The building which covered the antiquated five-stamper battery, boiler, engine, and tanks, was merely a huge roof of bark supported on untrimmed posts of brigalow and swamp gum, but rude as was the structure, the miners at Chinkie's Flat, and other camps in the vicinity, had once been distinctly proud of their battery, which possessed the high-sounding title of "The Ever Victorious," and had achieved fame by having in the "good times" of the Flat yielded a certain Peter Finnerty two thousand ounces of gold from a hundred tons of alluvial.
"Chinkie's Flat," In its decadence, was generally spoken of, by the passing traveller, as a "God-forsaken hole," and it certainly did present a repellent appearance when seen for the first time, gasping under the torrid rays of a North Queensland sun, which had dried up every green thing except the silver-leaved ironbarks, and the long, sinuous line of she-oaks which denoted the course of Connolly's Creek on which it stood.
If, when we get to Chinkie's Flat, I find that I must go with Charteris to the new rush, your friend Dick Scott and my own trusty black boy Jacky will take you on to Minerva Downs. You can travel with Lamington and his troopers part of the way after you leave Chinkie's. Take some light luggage on a pack-horse the rest, I am sorry to say, will have to come on from here by bullock team.
And I couldn't help stopping to think about the dogs I'd known and loved, the dogs who once meant so much in my life: Chinkie's Bingo, with his big baptizing tongue and his momentary rainbow as he emerged from the water and shook himself with my stick still in his mouth; Timmie with his ineradicable hatred for cats; Maxie with all his tricks and his singsong of howls when the piano played; Schnider, with his mania for my slippers and undies, which he carried into most unexpected quarters; and Gyp, God bless him, who was so homely of face and form but so true blue in temper and trust.
I never knew, of course, just what it would be like, and had no way of knowing. I remembered Chinkie's little love of a farm in Sussex, and I'd been a week at the Westbury's place out on Long Island, with its terraced lawns and gardens and greenhouses and macadamized roads.
Now I must tell you that Minerva Downs is a difficult place to reach, and that you will have to ride all the way from Townsville 250 miles but that will be nothing to an Australian-born girl 'wid Oirish blood in her. When you get to Townsville call on Mr. Grainger, who lives at a mining town called Chinkie's Flat, ninety miles from here, and Mr. "Very sincerely yours, my dear Sheila,
At one o'clock that day there were but eight Europeans and one black boy left on the once noisy Chinkie's Flat the landlord of "The Digger's Best," six miners, Grainger, and the black boy, "Jacky," who had accompanied him on his arduous journey from the Batavia River.
The Chinese broke and fled, and in half an hour each of the thirty men had pegged out a claim, and Chinkie's Flat became famous as one of the richest, though smallest, alluvial diggings in the Far North. Three months after the "discovery" of the field by Mr.
Tell that nigger of yours to take that infernal bundle away and keep it out of sight, or, by heavens, you and I will quarrel." Lamington, gentleman at heart, apologised: "I am a beast, Grainger. I didn't think of Miss Carolan." When Sheila awakened she had to bid Dick Scott goodbye, for Lamington was taking him back to Chinkie's Flat. "Goodbye, Miss Caroline.
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