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The work had been so far done, but it might be begun again at any moment, either near or at a distance. No doubt the attempt would be made elsewhere along the boundary between Gangoil and Boolabong was very probably being made at this moment. The two men whom he could trust and Jacko were now with him. They were wiping their brows with their arms and panting with their work.

I ain't so good at walking as I was before I was hurt. You should have remembered that, Mr. Heathcote, when you laid hands on me the other day." "You're not much the worse for what I did; nor yet for the accident, I take it. At any rate, you've not been at Gangoil wool-shed?" "No, I've not," said the man, roughly. "What the mischief should I be doing at your shed at night-time?"

Medlicot arrived; but her coming did not awake the sleeper, though it was by no means made in silence. The old woman sobbed and cried over her son, at the same time expressing her thankfulness that he should have turned up in the forest so exactly at the proper moment, evidently taking part in the conviction that her Giles had saved Gangoil and all its sheep.

I'll make the men get Yorkie up" Yorkie was a favorite horse he had "while you make the coffee; and I'll lead Colonel" Colonel was another horse, well esteemed at Gangoil. "Jackson will come quicker on him than on any animal he can get at Maryborough." And so it was arranged, in spite of the wife's tears and entreaties.

And, to tell you the truth, sugar is better than sheep. I'm very comfortable here, and I never liked your work." "You haven't been at the wool-shed?" "What, the Gangoil shed! What the blazes 'd I go there for? It's a matter of ten miles from here." "Seven, Nokes." "Seven, is it? It is a longish seven miles, Mr. Heathcote. How could I get that distance?

What right had this man to cross- examine him about his enmities the man whose own position in the place had been one of hostility to him, whom he had almost suspected of harboring Nokes at the mill simply because Nokes had been dismissed from Gangoil? That suspicion was, indeed, fading away.

As has been before said, Medlicot's plantation was about fourteen miles distant from the house at Boolabong, and the distance from the Gangoil house to that of the Brownbies was about the same. The oppressiveness of the day was owing more to the hot wind than to the sun itself. This wind, coming from the arid plains of the interior, brought with it a dry, suffocating heat.

The western fence of which mention has been made ran down to the Mary River, hitting it about four miles west of Medlicot's Mill; so that there was a considerable portion of the Gangoil run having a frontage to the water.

I thought you was ringing trees for that young scut at Gangoil? I'll be even with him some of these days! He had the impudence to send a man of his up here last week looking for sheep-skins." "He wasn't that soft, Mr. Jerry, was he? Well, I've dropped working for him. How are you, Mr. Brownbie? I hope I see you finely, Sir. It's stiffish sort of weather, Mr. Brownbie, ain't it, Sir?"

"It's Christmas-time, Harry," said his wife, "and you should endeavor to forgive your neighbors." "What sort of a Christmas will it be if you and I, and these young fellows here, and Kate, are all burned out of Gangoil? Here's Bates. -Well, Mr. Bates, how goes it? "Tremendous hot, Sir." "We've found that out already. You haven't heard where that fellow Boscobel has gone?" "No; I haven't heard.

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