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Updated: May 20, 2025
Then in full view of the camp he seated himself on the grade, rifle across his knee, and began to whittle. There Torrance, chugging noisily up from his evening dissipation at the end-of-steel village, found him. Even at a distance the absence of life about the shack struck the contractor, and the last half mile he covered with everything open.
Mahon, he blushed a little now at memories of her predecessors in that infamous end-of-steel village blond-haired, flashing eyed, bejewelled, strident voiced hussies who had worn out their welcome in society less base. For the sixth time Mahon consulted his watch and shook his head self-reprovingly. "Half-past eleven! Dissipation.
Three miles down the track, in what remained of a deserted end-of-steel village, Sergeant Mahon sat in his shirt sleeves, smiling across the corner of a table into the eyes of his wife, the only white woman, except Tressa Torrance, within a day's hard ride.
He sprang into the cab with a roar at 'Uggins, tossed a kiss to Tressa, pulled the whistle cord, and drew away with increasing speed from the trestle and down the line to the official siding, three miles away, at the deserted end-of-steel village. The work was completed for the night, yet the men lingered, self-consciously kicking over fragments of rock.
Torrance fled back to the end-of-steel village at Mile 127, that ghastly face before him, the picture of a strong man weeping. And for three days he drank himself to forgetfulness. On the morning of the fourth day he rolled up his sleeves again, waved his hand after the fleeing O'Connor, and signed a fresh contract for himself.
So that when the rattle of the engines ceased with suspicious suddenness midway between the end-of-steel village and the trestle he was not far from the grade. He deflected his course and presently, with scarcely deepened breath to show the speed at which he had come, he was watching from the shadows a strange scene.
I've done bush work in the Hills, and Blue Pete knocked something into me about trails." "It always surprises me," began the Inspector maliciously, "how eager young husbands are to get away " "May I take Helen, sir?" "No you may not! What do you think this is a honeymoon? In the first place you'll probably be located in some defunct end-of-steel village where even the ghosts are abominable.
As he had never run before he sped through the bush, bearing due south-east toward the deserted end-of-steel village, avoiding trees and fallen logs with uncanny ease. Some heard him and paused in their course, but they were keyed up to serious work, and there were so many of their friends abroad. Probably a messenger of their leader's on pressing duty.
And so Torrance, waving a boisterous hand from the low seat of his speeder to the young pair standing on the steps of the shack, threw open the gas and throbbed down the track to the end-of-steel village to add to his audience two Policemen and a train crew who were already crowing in anticipation of the end.
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