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Keep Tait with you, Norah." "All right," Norah nodded. "What about coo-eeing, Jim? He might hear a shout and answer it, even if he couldn't see us." "Yes, but you can't keep coo-eeing all the time," said Jim, practically. "I'll tell you what sing or whistle. You can do that easily, and it doesn't tire you. And of course, if you find him, fire the revolver you're sure you've got it carefully?"
Stumbling and falling against one another in the dark, they made shift to find the uncertain path, Winterslea, in the lead, coo-eeing like a bushfellow for them to follow. Little by little they gained the sleeping village, and pressed on to the beach beyond, where their boat was already afloat on the incoming tide. They took their places without a word and pulled out in the direction of the ship.
"By-and-by, 'Picaninny plenty tumble down. It was pitiful; but we knew that we were close on her at last. By this time, of course, she had been out for seventy-two hours. "I stuck to the track, with the lubra and Bob. We could hear some of the chaps coo-eeing now and again, and calling 'Mary!" "Bad line bad line," muttered Saunders impatiently.
Being a hermit my resources are scanty, but may I hope that you will have lunch with me? "I can't, I'm afraid," said Norah, looking affectionately at the damper. "The boys will be looking for me, if I don't go back. Listen there's Jim coo-eeing now!" "And who may Jim be?" queried the Hermit, a trifle uneasily. "Jim's my brother," Norah said. "He's fifteen, and he's just splendid.
We fastened on the patched up bridles as well as we could by feeling, and mounted, and rode home, about three miles more, as fast as we could. When we entered the flat near our own house, we heard loud and prolonged "coo-ees" from all sides. The servants had made up their minds that some terrible misfortune had happened to us, and were setting out to look for us, "coo-eeing" as they came along.
This fellow was coo-eeing for all he was worth. "'You'd better rouse your men out quick 'n lively, he sang out. 'There's a big grass fire between us and you. All our chaps are workin' at it; but I don't fancy they can keep it back in this wind. "I just turned and ran. "The big bell we use for summoning the men to their meals hangs under the kitchen verandah and I made a bee-line for it.
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