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By four in the afternoon they reached Kiley's River, running yellow and froth-covered with melting snow. The coachman pulled his horses up on the bank, and took a good, long look at the bearings. As they waited, the Kuryong vehicle came down on the other side of the river. "There's Mr. Gordon," said the coachman. "I don't think he'll try it. I reckon it's a trifle deep for me.
In the settled districts such as Kuryong, where the flocks were small, they were made to shear carefully; but away out on the Queensland side, on a station with two hundred thousand sheep to get through, they rushed the wool off savagely.
They swore exactly the things that he told them to swear, spoke or were silent according as he ordered, and trusted him with secrets which they would not entrust to their own brothers. In that district he wielded a power greater than the law. It was written in an old-fashioned, lady's hand, angular and spidery. It ran Kuryong Station, Monday. Dear Mr. Blake,
She marched into the bar, where Dan, the landlord's son, was sweeping, while Mrs. Connellan, the landlady, was wiping glasses in the midst of a stale fragrance of overnight beer and tobacco-smoke. "I am going to Kuryong," said the young lady, "and I expected to meet Mr. Gordon here. Is he here?" Mrs. Connellan looked at her open-eyed. Such an apparition was not often seen in Tarrong. Mr. and Mrs.
Tracey, the blacksmith, had not by any means finished shoeing the coach-horse yet. So Mrs. Connellan made an attempt to find out who she was, and why she was going to Kuryong. "You'll have a nice trip in the coach," she said. He's a nice feller." "Yes?" "Father Kelly, too. He's good company." "Yes?" "Are you staying long at Kuryong?" "Some time, I expect." "Are you going to teach the children?"
Each of them told everybody that they met, pulling up and standing in their stirrups to discuss the matter in all its bearings, in the leisurely style of the bush; and wondering what she had come out for, whether the Gordons would get the sack from Kuryong, whether she would marry Hugh Gordon, whether she was engaged already, whether she was good-looking, how much money she had, and how much old Grant would leave her.
By Gad, I'm broke. The old man won't give me a copper. What about Saturday? Are you going to the Court at Ballarook?" "Yes. I've got a couple of cases there. And I've just got a letter from Mrs. Gordon, asking me to stay the night at Kuryong." "Ho! My oath! Stop at Kuryong, eh? That's cause you saved the heiress? Well, go in and win. You won't know us when you marry the owner of Kuryong.
"They're not for Keogh," said Charlie. "They're for me. I've taken Keogh's block over." The old man looked at him dubiously. "Well, but y'aint goin' to tie hup no dorg on us for 'em, are yer? I s'pose it's all right, though?" "Right, yes," said Gordon. "It's for Mr. Grant, Old Man Grant, you've heard of Grant of Kuryong?" "Never 'eard of him," said the aged man, "but it makes no hodds.
"It's the big stations is the roon of the country," he said. "How is the country to go ahead at all wid all the good land locked up? There's Kuryong on ahead here would support two hundthred fam'lies, and what does it employ now? Half a dozen shepherds, widout a rag to their back." "I am going to Kuryong," said the girl; and the priest was silent.
But it was whispered here and muttered there among the Doyles and the Donohoes and their friends and relations, that old Billy the Bully, on one of his visits to the interior, had been married to this undesirable lady by a duly accredited parson, in the presence of responsible witnesses; and that, when everyone had their own, Carrotty Peg, if alive, would be the lady of Kuryong.
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