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Updated: May 19, 2025
Jim Done turned and walked away, leaving the enemies alone. Next morning he saw Stony moving about his tent, and experienced a feeling of relief. He had been unable to divest himself of a sense of responsibility for the safety of the miserable hatter. By this time quite a strong friendship had grown up between the three Peetrees and Done and Burton.
Done found the Peetrees working a fairly profitable mine at Blanket Flat, a sort of tributary field to Jim Crow, and situated about three miles distant from the original rush. Harry stood in with Done, and the two pegged out a claim and set to work; but Jim did not derive the satisfaction he had expected from this return to his friends and his familiar pursuits.
Mary read a letter from the Peetrees inviting Jim to join them at Blanket Flat where they had taken his and Mike's belongings when he was strong enough to get about. According to Mrs. Ryley's version of this letter, Mike was with the Peetrees.
The loss of Mike and the disappearance of Aurora were becoming grievances that he cherished with youthful unreason. He determined to rejoin the Peetrees at once, and, although far from being his old self physically, began to make preparations for the return to Jim Crow. 'There's somethin' I'd like you to be doin' fer me afore you go, mate, said Ben Kyley to Jim one evening.
The Peetrees were not unsociable, but with them conversation was not essential to human intercourse. They were content to sit on a log, or spread themselves on the dry grass in company with friendly diggers, smoking composedly through a whole evening, without contributing more than an approving 'My word! or 'My colonial! to the night's debate. Mike was in full sympathy with their neighbours.
Burton and the Peetrees had resolved to try a new rush before Done called at the shanty again. 'I have come to say goodbye, Mrs. Ben, he said to the big washerwoman, 'and to thank you for a thousand kindnesses. 'Thank me for nothing! cried Mrs. Kyley. 'Is it true you are off on the wallaby again? 'We shall start for Simpson's Ranges in the morning.
Jim Done enjoyed the tramp to Simpson's Ranges. The weather was fine, the country was picturesque, and the company highly congenial. He liked the Peetrees better in his present mood, and his interest in the popular movement that was to culminate at Eureka was deepening daily.
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