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Updated: June 10, 2025
He was a sort of bush missionary up-country and out back in Australia, and before he died he was known from Riverina down south in New South Wales to away up through the Never-Never country in western Queensland. His past was a mystery, so, of course, there were all sorts of yarns about him.
The man was yet a stranger to the ways of the Never-Never. "I'll have to ask for tick for meself for awhile," he said "But if that won't pay for all me mate's had there's another where they came from. He was always independent and would never take charity."
You make me say things I don't want to say. You always did. 'Ah! Then marriage has not changed you so immensely, after all! She bit her lip and rose abruptly. 'Do you want any more tea? No. Then come to the veranda and tell me how it is that Luke Tallant has allowed you to exchange Government House for the Never-Never? He had followed her through the French window.
They were there, and our guests knew why they were there, and words, like the spare rooms, would have been superfluous. Breakfast at sun-up or thereabouts, dinner at noon and supper at sun-down, is the long-established routine of meals on all cattle-runs of the Never-Never, and at all three meals Sam waited, bland and smiling.
His face flushed: his eyes gleamed; his hands were thrust out with passion. "Will you not understand that were I as foul as hell, a woman like you would make me clean again? The wild sin of our youth has eaten into the soul of my life. You think I have been indifferent to you and to our boy. No, never-never! That I left you both to yourselves was the best proof I was not neglectful.
The Quiet Stockman was away beyond the southern boundary, rounding up wanderers and stragglers among the horses, and the station was face to face with the year's work, making preparations for the year's mustering and branding for with the lifting of the Wet everything in the Never-Never begins to move.
She had been called back to the varied emotional interests of her girlhood, and realised, in a rush, how deadly dull was life in the arid wastes of the Never-Never. Nothing more exciting than to watch the great parched plain, with the dry heat-haze upon it, getting browner every day, and the shrinking lagoon and its ever widening border of mud.
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