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After a while he thought he caught a sound, and put his ear down to the ground. He distinctly heard a footstep, and rising up, walked quickly toward the spot whence the noise came. "Who's that?" he said, as he saw the figure of a man standing on his side of the fence, and leaning against it, with a pipe in his month. "Who are you?" replied the man on the fence. "My name is Medlicot." "Oh, Mr.
He had often looked at the canes from over his own fence, as he had done on the night of the rain; but he had stood always on his own land. Now he was in the sugar-mill, never before having seen such a building. "You've a deal of machinery here, Mr. Medlicot," he said. "It's a small affair, after all," said the other. "I hope to get a good plant before I've done." "Can I speak a word with you?"
"I didn't mean that at all, Mr. Medlicot; any body is welcome on my run, night or day, who knows how to behave himself." "I hope I'm included in that list." "Just so; of course. Considering the state that every thing is in, and all the damage that a fire would do, I rather wish that people would be a little more careful about smoking." "My canes, Mr.
He apologized for troubling his neighbor at all on the subject, and endeavored to explain, somewhat awkwardly, that as Mr. Medlicot was a new-comer, he probably might not understand the kind of treatment to which employers in the bush were occasionally subject from their men. On this matter he said much, which, had he been a better tactician, he might probably have left unspoken.
Jerry was bruised and burned about the face by his fall among the ashes, and did not much relish the work afterward. Boscobel was stunned for a few moments, and was quite ready to retreat when he came to himself. Nokes during the whole time did not show himself, alleging as a reason afterward the presence of his employer Medlicot.
Kate had no answer to make, but she thought that it would be his own fault if he did not have a wife to stand up for him thoroughly. "He has been very lucky in his wife." "I think he has, Mr. Medlicot; but you are moving about, and you ought to lie still. There! I hear the horses; that's the doctor. I do so hope he won't say that any thing very bad is the matter."
Heathcote and her sister went through the house, and soon learned how things were. Mr. Medlicot, from the mill, had come with a bone broken, and it was their duty to nurse him till a doctor could be procured from Maryborough. Now Maryborough was thirty miles distant. Some one must be dispatched at once. Jacko volunteered, but in such a service Jacko was hardly to be trusted.
Soon after dinner Heathcote, as was his wont, strayed out with his prime minister Bates to consult on the dangers which might be supposed still to threaten his kingdom, and Mrs. Heathcote, with her youngest boy in her lap, sat talking to Mrs. Medlicot in the parlor. Such was not her custom in weather such as this.
"Certainly. Will you come into the office, or will you go across to the house?" Harry said that the office would do, and followed Medlicot into a little box-like inclosure which contained a desk and two stools. "Not much of an office, is it? What can I do for you, Mr. Heathcote?" Then Harry began his story, which he told at considerable length.
But I'm not going to have incendiaries here as well. You're a new chum, and don't understand what you're about, but you must stop this." As Medlicot still went on putting out the fire, Jerry attempted to ride him down. Medlicot caught the horse by the rein, and violently backed the brute in among the embers.
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