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"It is the proper course to follow," he muttered to himself, one day after breakfast, while brooding alone over the remnants of the meal, "for it would be unjust to allow myself to lie under a false imputation, and it would be equally unjust to allow the McLeods to remain under a false impression. Perhaps some enemy may have put them against me.
With everybody from far and near who had any claim upon Sobrante hastening thither to share its open hospitalities; Wolfgang and Elsa, with their "little" six-foot son; the genial McLeods, Dr. Kimball and his sweet-faced invalid sister, Louise, for whose benefit he had left their fine Boston home to live in this lonely, lovely southland.
"Oh, Monsieur Redding," he exclaimed, "dem squatters, de black scoundrils what is be called Macklodds has bin come at last." "Ho, ho! the McLeods have come, have they?" said Redding, laying down his knife and fork, and looking earnestly at the man; "I had heard of their intention." "Oui, yis, vraiment," said Le Rue, with vehemence, "dey has come to Jenkins Creek more dan tree veeks pass.
The McLeods and their men were too many for Leonard. He went to Melbourne to try if the law or the Government would give him any redress, but he could obtain no satisfaction. The continued impounding of his cattle meant ruin to him, and when he returned to Gippsland he found his hut burned down and his cattle gone on the way to the pound. He took a double-barrelled gun and went after them.
"O ah! well, to change the subject, d'you know Mr Redding, that same idea struck me some days ago, for Jonas Bellew has left them to look after his own affairs, and the Indians were to go north on the 13th, so the McLeods must have been living for some time on salt provisions, unless they have used their guns with better success than has been reported of them.
"Indeed? and not bad food for a hungry man," returned Redding, as he began supper. "Where got you him?" "Down near Jenkins Creek, where the McLeods are setting up their saw-mill." "The McLeods!" exclaimed Redding, looking up suddenly, "have you seen the McLeods?" "Ay, I've bin helpin' them a bit wi' the mill. Goin' down again to-morrow.
At a certain part of the slight track which had been formed by the McLeods in their visits to the shore, the bushes were very thick, and here, on rounding a bend in the track, they met the bear face to face. Had there been some little space between them, the animal would probably have turned and fled; but, being taken by surprise, he stood fast.
"Are you aware, Bellew, that these McLeods have settled themselves on the Company's reserve lands?" "No, sir, I wasn't aware of it."
"Vraiment," said Le Rue, with a slight shrug of his shoulders, "I am so for remaining in de service of von goose!" There was such good-humoured impudence in the man's face as he said this that Redding laughed in spite of himself. "Well," he said, "your readiness to talk has at all events caused bad feeling between me and the McLeods. However, it don't matter.
Many grand parties these McLeods give music and dancing, and eating and drinking, and the young officers of the garrison are there, as well as our own gay young men; and where these temptations are, young women are sure to go. His aunt is mistress of his house. "Now, then, this thing happened when Boris was last here. One night he heard two men talking as they went down the street before him.
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