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Updated: June 1, 2025
'Perhaps you don't know, she went on, 'that Mrs Hensor is a sort of Helen of the Upper Leura though unfortunately as yet no Paris has carried her off I wish there was one bold enough to do it. She had to be asked to take a change of air because there was rivalry about her between the buyer of a Meat Preserving Establishment and the chief butcher at Tunumburra. Fair Helen scorned them both.
But had this complex, fastidious, physically-refined creature the least comprehension of what life on the Upper Leura might mean? And how about an Ideal dethroned from her pedestal and plumped down amid the crude realities of the nethermost Bush? Mrs Gildea did not get to the wedding.
But he only managed for other men until he had made enough money of his own to take up and stock new country for himself. In a few years he had acquired a moderate-sized herd and established himself with it on the almost unexplored reaches of the Upper Leura. Life on that river never lacked dangerous adventure.
Well, we all emigrated out here, and, after a while, my old dad bought a station on the Lower Leura taken in he was, of course, over the deal, and not realising that it was unsettled country in those days.
'I'm quite content with a shake-down at the Quarters, though if I'd known I might have gone by the short cut with the Specials it's rather late, however, to push on to Breeza Downs, where though perhaps I say it as shouldn't I'm sure of a welcome from Mr and Mrs Windeatt, being, so to speak for law and order the representative of His Majesty in the Leura district.
It is possible you may have sold the place. I hear of severe droughts in parts of Leichardt's Land, but have no information about the Leura district. Now that Sir Luke Tallant has exchanged to Hong Kong, Bridget hasn't any touch with Leichardt's Land, and I have very few correspondents there. Write to me not a stilted, legal kind of letter like the last.
Handle it gingerly it's full of silver and glass fallals not what we're much used to on the Leura. The stockman grinned and carried the dressing-bag one of Sir Luke's and Lady Tallant's wedding presents as if it were dynamite. Colin seemed anxious to impress his wife's dignity upon her new subjects. She felt still more like a queen of comic opera.
I'd left Ninnis to oversee up here, and Ninnis didn't know the Leura like some of the old hands, who told me afterwards they'd seen the big drought coming as long back as that. I remember one old chap on the river, when he was sold up by the Bank in the last bad times, and his wife had died of it all, saying to me, 'The Leura isn't the place for a woman. And he was right.
The police-magistrate found his opportunity. 'You wouldn't be afraid, Lady Bridget, if you realised that cow as an expression of the Divine mind. Bridget laughed. Her sense of the queerness of it all was almost hysterical. She had the Irish wit to make the men grin at her prompt answer, which when it became bruited up and down the Leura, earned her the reputation of being sharp at repartee.
What they saw was a row of mutilated bodies, lying stark along the veranda of that head-station on the Leura. Bridget was leaning forward in her squatter's chair, her fingers grasping the arms of it, her face very white and her eyes staring too, as though they also beheld the scene of horror. Presently McKeith came back, pale too, but quite composed. 'I beg your pardon, he said stiffly.
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