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In those days the dead bodies of the poor were taken to the cemetery in a common rubbish-cart. By speeches and letters both public and private, and by interviews with influential men, Mrs. Chisholm sought help for the emigrants both in Sydney and England, where she opened an office in 1846. In the year 1856 Major Chisholm took a house at Nyalong, near Philip's school.
John measured the walls and solved the problem promptly. The Major then sent his three young children to the school, and made the acquaintance of the master. Mrs. Chisholm never went to Nyalong, but the Major must have given her much information about it, for one day he read a portion of one of her letters which completely destroyed Philip's peace of mind.
The defeated Nosey staggered towards his hut, and his temper was afterwards so bad that Julia declined to stay with him any longer; she loosed the marriage bonds without recourse to law, and disappeared. Her husband went away westward, but he did not stay long. He returned to Nyalong and lived awhile alone in his hut there, but he was restless and dissatisfied.
"I must acknowledge that Miss Edgeworth did not take what I said to comfort her very kindly, and she 'gave me fits, as the saying is; but bless your soul, she'll soon get over it, and will do better next time." Soon after the death of Philip, Major Chisholm and his family left Nyalong, and I was appointed Clerk to the Justices at Colac.
In that way the lonely hermit put his foot down and began a countermine, working as silently as possible. During the Christmas holidays, after his neighbour Frank had been jilted by Cecily, he rode away, and returned after a week's absence. The Major informed him that Mrs. Chisholm had met with an accident and would be unable to visit Nyalong for some time.
When darkness came he escorted him to the tent of the men from Nyalong, and was introduced to them by his new friend. Their names were Gleeson, Poynton, Lyons, and two brothers McCarthy. One of these men was brother-in-law to Barton, and had been a fellow-trooper with him under Captain Foster.
Philip had never travelled as far as Lake Nyalong, but Picaninny Jack told him that he had once been there, and that it was a beautiful country. He tried to find it at another time, but got bushed on the wrong side of the lake; now he believed there was a regular track that way if Philip could only find it.
Before going to look for Nyalong he introduced his successor to her, and also to the scholars. Her name was Miss Edgeworth. The first virtue of a good master is gravity, and Philip had begun at the beginning. He was now graver even than usual while he briefly addressed his youthful auditors.
Philip met them again when he was promoted to the school at Nyalong, and they were his firm friends as long as he lived there. I went to various rushes to improve my circumstances. Once I was nearly shot. A bullet whizzed past my head, and lodged in the trunk of a stringy bark a little further on. That was the only time in my life I was under fire, and I got from under it as quickly as possible.
"Well, Nosey," he said, "you can tell that tale to the marines." In the meantime the runs around Lake Nyalong had been surveyed by the government and sold.
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