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He came up and shook hands with Medlicot, with sufficient courtesy, but hardly with cordiality, and then asked his wife as to her ride. "We have been very jolly, haven't we, Kate? Of course it has been hot, but every thing is not so frightfully parched as it was before the rain. As Mr. Medlicot has come back so far with us, we want him to come on and dine." "Pray do, Mr. Medlicot," said Harry.
To him, in his way of thinking, a man who would take advantage of the law to buy a bit of another man's land or become a free-selector, as the term goes was a public enemy, and might be presumed capable of any iniquity. It was all very well for the girls meaning his wife and sister-in-law to tell him that Medlicot had the manners of a gentleman and had come of decent people.
"There was young Heathcote, and a boy he has got there, and the two chaps as he calls boundary rulers, and Medlicot, the sugar fellow from the mill, and a chap of Medlicot's I never set eyes on before. They must have expected something to be up, or Heathcote would not have been going about at night with a tribe of men like that." "And who were your party?"
"'Come, Mr. Medlicot, said the skipper to me, 'we shall be here for a couple of days to refit; had you not better go ashore and see the country?
"That may be all true," she said. "Perhaps it is as you say about that man. But you would not therefore think that Mr. Medlicot knows any thing about it?" "It would be impossible," said Kate. "I have not accused him," said Harry; "but he knows that the man was dismissed, and yet keeps him about the place. Of course he is responsible."
When he had ridden about all night and discovered nothing, he might just as well have been in bed. And he was continually riding about all night and discovering nothing. After leaving the station on the evening of the day on which he had expressed himself to the women so vehemently respecting Medlicot, he met Bates coming home from his day's work.
It had seemed, however, that the mass of fire which had got away from them was small, and already the damp of the night was on the grass; and Harry felt himself justified in hoping not that there might be no loss, but that the loss might not be ruinous. Medlicot consented to be taken back to Gangoil instead of to the mill.
To think that men, creatures that call themselves men, should do such a thing as this! It breaks one's heart." He had paused as he spoke, leaning on the great battered bough which he held, but in an instant was at work with it again. "Do you stay here, Mr. Medlicot, with the men, and I'll go on beyond where you began. If I find the fire growing down, I'll shout, and they can come to me."
Heathcote were soon seated on the grass, while Medlicot and Kate Daly roamed on together. Kate was a pretty, modest girl, timid withal and shy, unused to society, and therefore awkward, but with the natural instincts and aptitudes of her sex.
"You haven't heard me yet." Then Harry went on and told of the fires in the heat of summer, and of their terrible effects of the easy manner of revenge which they supplied to angry, unscrupulous men, and of his own fears at the present moment. "I can believe it all," said Medlicot, "and am very sorry that it should be so.
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