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Updated: June 21, 2025
The Malay boy waited at table with the assistance of a servant girl from Leuraville, the only female domestic with the exception of Mrs Hensor on the head-station. McKeith swallowed his soup and ate the savoury stew prepared by the Chinese cook with the appetite of a man who had been all day in the saddle.
'An extraordinary thing ? What was it? he said in the same breathless, broken way. 'It was Mr Ninnis. He was there, standing on the platform just off his droving trip he was going to take the next train to Leuraville. If I had stayed there as Captain Halliwell wanted me to, I should have missed him. He'd got a letter from Moongarr Bill Oh, I know all about that.
Then he said: 'Now I'm going to stow away my own traps. My cabin is just facing this and you've only got to call out if you want anything. Eh, but my word! Biddy, it's a fine thing to be marrying from Government House. The Company has done us both proud. They were landed at Leuraville on the evening of the fourth day.
The barkeeper shouted, 'Good luck to you and your lady, Mr McKeith. The drunken reprobates, awakened from their slumber on the boards, called out, too, 'Goo-luksh! There was an attempt at a cheer, but before McKeith had got out his answering, 'Thank ye Good day, mates, a shower of opprobrious epithets rained upon him from a little band of discontented bush rowdies the advance guard of that same Union delegate who had come up with them in the train from Leuraville.
She plunged at once into faith-healing ethics with the police-magistrate, while Colin saw about getting the trunks off the tender. How odd it seemed to be talking about London and Christian science in a place like this! Leuraville too seemed part of a dream. But her face soon lost its bewildered look.
Then, after the ghastly pretence of dinner during which appearances were kept up unnecessarily before Maggie and the Malay boy, by a forced discussion of matter-of-fact details looking out the exact time of the putting in of the next E. and A. boat at Leuraville all of which he had already done, and pointing out to Bridget that she could catch it, with a day to spare.
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