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Nuggan, too, had taunted him with the change in Ailleen's manner and the reason for it the reason this man had named the mystery surrounding his birth. His eyes turned again upon the silent form on the stretcher, with the horribly distorted features and the face moulded in an expression of merciless hate and cruelty.
Then he burst out laughing. "You have found out something this time," he said, in a bantering tone. "Who made up that fairy tale?" "It's no fairy tale. It's true," Marmot answered. "There's Tommy Nuggan coming. Ask him about it, if you won't believe me."
"Sam Nuggan was in to-day with a chipped cog off his reaper, and he says, 'Cullen, he says, 'I've got it. 'No! says I. 'Yes! says he. 'It's all along of that yaller head and young Dickson of Barellan."
"Why, Nellie Murray and Dickson have been thick for " "Have they?" Nuggan, in his turn, interrupted. "And you think Dickson has time for any one now since Yaller-head went out to Barellan? I know, I do. I don't tell no fairy tales. No more than when I said it was strange you being the only one at the Flat who wasn't sandy or mousey in the hair. I don't make no error.
I saw it, and I said, 'Nuggan, my boy, I said, 'this ain't your game. If the girl goes to the old man, it's his and her game, not yours." "Only she didn't go," Tony said. "Didn't she? Then perhaps you know more than I do, and can tell me " "I can tell you if you put that yarn about you've started as good a fairy tale as was ever told," Tony interrupted.
I stayed with him while the others went on, and he told me he knew me because I was like my my father; and then he said he stole me as a baby and left me here. I wouldn't have believed it only Nuggan said there was something wrong, and then I made up my mind to come out and ask. What is the truth?" "That's it," Taylor said.
But he heard him and her one night as they were riding in, him bringing her back from some moonlight ride they was always getting up he heard her say to him, 'But who do you take after, Tony? And next day, so Sam Nuggan says, Taylor and his misses was talkin' a lot and Tony was watchin' a lot, and then he ups and comes into the township, and the next he hears he'd gone off with them gully-rakers."
The gleam in the eyes satisfied him that it was only delirium in the man's mind; there was only a coincidence in the fact that he spoke of what Nuggan had hinted at, and what lay nearest to Tony's heart the question of his parentage and the dissimilarity between himself and the other members of the Taylor family. "I knew you in a moment, knew you by the likeness," the man went on.
At first he had tried to dismiss it from his mind altogether, telling himself that it was only the ravings of a man delirious at the point of death. But the knowledge that the man had displayed as to incidents and interests in his life, and, above all, the significant hints Nuggan had uttered, all helped to keep his attention on it.
Tony, as soon as the reasons for the procession and the direction of its route had been duly explained to and accepted by Nuggan, reined in his horse beside him, and, dismounting, walked with him. "Marmot said you'd tell me all about the latest yarn from the verandah about Slaughter," Tony said. "Ah," Nuggan exclaimed, "you were a bit surprised to hear it, I take it?
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