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Updated: May 9, 2025
The tepee was finished shortly before eleven o'clock that morning, when Willy hung a blanket of deerhide over the doorway. As yet, none of the Overlanders had been permitted to look in and when they asked if they might do so, "You wait.
They were awakened by his barking at daybreak. Joe Shafto was hallooing to them. "Git a hustle on ye," she called in answer to Tom Gray's answering hail. There was a scramble in the camp of the Overlanders, for they desired to show their guide that they were no novices at breaking camp and getting under way.
Tea, being the quickest drink to make, was brewed, and gulped down by the Overlanders almost as fast as Joe could, pour it. "How fu fu funny you look," chattered Emma, nodding at Miss Briggs. "If I look as funny as I feel, I must be a scream," retorted Elfreda. "Here, here! Don't I get any of that?" cried Hippy, coming up at a run. Tea was served to him. "Ah-h-h-h! Nectar of the gods!
At length the Overlanders were ascending the banks of the M'Leod, whose torrential current warned them of rising ground. Three times in one day windfall and swamp forced the party to ford the stream for passage on the opposite side. The oxen swam and the ox-carts floated and the packs came up the bank dripping.
Each girl, armed with a rifle, took the position assigned to her, and there was no more conversation for the next two hours, no sound other than that from the insect life and the occasional whinney of a pony. The minds of the Overlanders, however, were active.
By this time the camp was nearly finished, and the tents of the Overlanders looked like tiny doll houses under those giant pines, and in this, the very heart of nature, in the silence and the grandeur of it all, the girls felt a deep sense of something that they could not define, which left them disinclined to laugh or chatter.
The Overlanders are nearly all men in the prime of youth, whose occupation it is to convey large herds of stock from market to market and from colony to colony.
Fortunately, there was little whisky; so, though tattered miners were everywhere in the woods, order was maintained without vigilance committees. On one spectacle the far-travelled ragged Overlanders feasted their tired eyes. They saw miners everywhere along the banks of creeks washing gold.
Julie's words did not impress the Overlanders at the moment, but while on their way to camp they pondered over them, discussed them and wondered what she may have meant. The answer to the question in their minds Grace and her friends found awaiting them when they reached the camp. "Hippy, did you know that I saved your life to-night?" asked Emma Dean as the party neared their camp.
The repeated collisions between them and the Overlanders had kindled a deep spirit of revenge in their breasts, and although they suffered severely in every contest, they would not allow any party with stock to pass along the line of the river without attempting to stop their progress; and there can be no doubt but that, in this frame of mind, they would have attacked the station next the river if they had been left to themselves, and with their stealthy habits and daring, would have been no mean enemy on the boundaries of location.
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