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After breakfast the Overlanders held a consultation over what Julie had told them about conditions on White River Ridge, but deferred their decision as to what should be done until they had talked the situation over with Tom. Soon after that they packed up and rode away, reaching Hall's Corners about ten o'clock in the morning.
The farther the Overlanders now plunged into the wilderness, the more they were pestered by the husky-dogs that roamed in howling hordes round the outskirts of the forts. The story is told of several prospectors of this time, who slept soundly in their tent after a day's exhausting tramp, and awoke to find that their boots, bacon, rope, and clothes had been devoured by the ravenous dogs.
The Overlanders, frightened for the safety of the guide, ran to assist her, when, out of the mix-up, leaped the forest woman, her hair tumbled down her back, and eyes blazing through the big horn-rimmed spectacles, she having rolled under July and out of the way with amazing agility. "I'll larn ye, ye beasts!" she shrieked, running for her club.
"Man b'longey top-side horse!" cried Ping, again pointing in another direction. The Overlanders saw a cloud of dust rolling toward them over the desert, ahead of the cloud being a horseman riding at a swift gallop. "This would seem to be our day at home, judging from the number of callers who are dropping in," observed Elfreda. Grace threw up her glasses and took a quick look.
But if he was of sound mind, desiring to live, and so certain of death that he was able to write his own fate in the past tense, why did he attempt the rapids? His friends had no explanation of the curious incident. There is another gruesome story of a sand-bar in the very middle of this raging canyon. It will be remembered that some of the Overlanders had straggled far to the rear.
"Oh, most anything," answered Hippy lamely. "Well, Ah reckon Ah'll be gittin' back home," sighed Julie. "No, no!" protested the Overlanders in chorus. "You will remain here to-night. Your horse is tired out and so are you," added Grace. It required considerable persuasion to induce the girl to stay, but she finally consented.
During 1839 it was felt however that the markets of South Australia no longer afforded such large profits; but Port Lincoln was then occupied and a new country opened, to which cattle and sheep were conveyed across Spencer's Gulf. This for a time afforded some employment to the Overlanders; but their spirits were secretly chafed by the thought that the limits of their career were attained.
Ah reckoned as ye was that. Ah did, an' seein' as ye admit it, ain't nothin' more to be said 'bout that, but Ah'll take ye in and clap ye in the calaboose jest the same. Yer under arrest! All of ye is under arrest onless ye'll agree t' git out o' the mountings t'-night." Hippy shrugged his shoulders, and the Overlanders, with the exception of Grace, looked serious.
His survey took in all quarters of the compass, and when he turned to the Overlanders again, Grace thought he looked a little disturbed. "What is it, Mr. Lang?" she asked. "I reckon it's the desert this time," he replied. "A storm?" "Yes." "Rain?" questioned Grace innocently. The guide grinned. "Nothing like that in these parts. Wind, Mrs. Gray.
But there appears to be a certain wildness about their character, which, while it fits them admirably for the pursuit which they have chosen, renders them restless and uneasy in more quiet and domestic spheres. The love of gain, too, is rather more of a ruling passion with them than it ought to be, but that is a fault by no means peculiar to the overlanders.
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