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Updated: May 21, 2025
Sh! Cries of 'Shame. 'Chuck it! Then again, McKeith's voice, this time like thunder. 'Stop that I say one more word and out you go, whether you like it or not. On that, came the noise of a scuffle and the fall of a heavy body across the veranda. And of McKeith, once more breathing satisfaction: 'All right!
McKeith seemed to take no heed of her departure; his eyes were fixed on Lady Bridget; there was in them a light of inward excitement. 'Please go on, she said, 'I want so much to hear. He thought for a few moments, shook the ashes from his pipe and then plunged into his story.
Luke tells me that Colin McKeith is certain to come to the fore in politics I daresay he will be Premier of Leichardt's Land before long. Biddy would like bossing the show and airing her philanthropic crazes. Mrs Gildea shook her head doubtfully. 'Colin wouldn't agree with them. Besides, she would be expatriated. 'Oh no.
In fact, she gleaned most of her information as to the Leichardt's Town Government House Party from the newspapers she happened upon at bush hotels. For Lady Bridget was evidently in a reactionary mood as regards letter-writing and Colin McKeith never put pen to paper, if he could avoid doing so, except on business. Next post brought her three brief and characteristic letters.
'Leave her Ladyship out of it, will you, McKeith snarled, his teeth showing between his tense lips. 'I would do that willingly, Boss, for there's no disrespect intended I can assure you. Only it means that this Wombo business will have to be reported, and if you can help me to the right evidence well, so much the pleasanter for all parties, returned the Police Inspector craftily.
She wouldn't have him at any price naturally and I had to give the fellow work outside the head-station to keep him away from her. That was before I went south. Very likely he's been trying it on again, and knew I should have to get rid of him as soon as I came back. 'Why doesn't the woman marry again? McKeith shrugged. 'Too jolly comfortable perhaps or perhaps the right man hasn't turned up.
A little later, McKeith having tubbed and changed his riding clothes, came to his wife's room. He looked very large and clean and fair, and the worst of his temper had worn off in a colloquy with Ninnis, and the imparting and receiving of local news. But his eyes were still gloomy, and his mouth sullenly determined.
Pulling Tommy angrily along, she hurried up to the four-roomed, zinc-roofed humpey and its lean-to kitchen, protected by a bough shade, which lay between the head-station and the gully, with the stockyard close to it, and which constituted her domain. It annoyed Mrs Hensor to hear McKeith called her master.
Maule's impressions of Tunumburra where he had met McKeith in the township hotel, and the two had apparently, in the usual Bush fashion, got on intimate terms the rumours of an armed camp of Unionists, and the expected conflict between them and the sheep owners and free shearers at Breeza Downs, whither the Government specials were bound.
McKeith paused a moment before going out by the further door of the office which looked out on the plain. 'I'll leave you now to run up your horse and make your own arrangements. As soon as I can, I shall start to help in getting the bush fire under. You can arrest that Organiser if you are keen on arresting somebody.
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