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On the previous evening, Wallington Neale, who had spent most of the day with Betty Fosdyke, endeavouring to gain some further light on the disappearance of her uncle, had left her at eight o'clock in order to keep a business appointment.
He was too much bothered, too full of vague fears, to think of his midday dinner. He took the glass which Joseph handed to him, and picked a couple of biscuits out of the box. And at the first sip Gabriel spoke again. "Neale!" he said. "You've been here five years, so one can speak confidentially. There's something wrong seriously wrong. Securities are missing. Securities representing a lot!"
The report came in only last night. It's a queer document. Here it is. Study it at your leisure.... It seems a big force of men have been working there for months. Piers have been put in only to sink." "Sink!" ejaculated Neale. "WHEW! That's a stumper! ... Chief, the survey is mine. I'll never forget how I worked on it." "Could you have made a mistake?" "Of course," replied Neale, readily.
"You make me tired, Joe Eldred," she observed, and without waiting for further parley she shot away into the otherwise empty castle. "Oh! why didn't you stop her?" cried Ruth, anxiously. "I'd like to see anybody stop that girl," growled Joe. "She's as reckless as she can be," said Neale. "Aw, say!" exclaimed Wib, as they called young Ketchell, "is the roof really unsafe?"
Stuart reached the Neale Creek, a little to the east of where he struck it before, but found that the large bodies of water had nearly all gone; by digging in the sand of the main channel, however, they obtained sufficient for their immediate wants.
"Sit down, man. This is no pipe dream, and I mean it. In fact, I am willing to hand you half of the money down. That 's all right, Neale," he added as the other made a gesture of dissent. "I know my business, and enough about men to judge Craig here for that amount. That we are in earnest we have got to assure him someway, and money talks best.
You can tell Miss Fosdyke if you like she'll understand: women have more intuition than men. Now I'm off I want to get a wire away to London. Look here drop in at the police-station when you get back. We shall examine Hollis's clothing, you know there may be some clue to Horbury." He hurried off towards the town, and Neale rejoined Betty.
Shane had done his best and his last for the U. P. R. Neale and Larry and Slingerland planned to go into the hills late in the fall, visit Slingerland's old camp, and then try to locate the gold buried by Horn. For the present Larry meant to return to Benton, and Neale, though vacillating as to his own movements, decided to keep an eye on the cowboy.
John Horbury, take the earliest opportunity of announcing that all Customers' Securities and Deposits in their hands are safe, and that business will be conducted in the usual way." "That make things clear?" asked Joseph, closely watching his clerk. "To our clients, I mean?" "Quite clear, I should say," replied Neale.
Followed the Neale round to where it goes through the gap in Hanson range; in places it was rather boggy, but good travelling in this wet weather firmer than I expected. We had much difficulty in crossing some of the side creeks. Camped on the south side of the gap. Wind south-east; cloudy, with little rain. Tuesday, 20th March, Neale River Gap, Hanson Range.
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