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I want you to know my brother Reggy. He was always so sorry he missed you at the Grange." The tall, young, good-looking brown Englishman who had sauntered up bestowed a far more critical glance upon Peter's horse than upon Peter, but nevertheless grasped his hand heartily as his sister introduced him.
Hector and the younger boys frequently went out fishing, but Harry and Reggy preferred shooting. On one occasion Hector volunteered to accompany them. The boys were feeling somewhat fatigued from their walk, when they reached a large water-hole, which they had not before visited. "The water looks very refreshing; I intend to have a bath," said Hector, beginning to undress.
They ran round to try and find an entrance by one of the windows or back door, but the shutters were all closed. At length Mr Hayward and Reggy came up, but they were not more successful in making the inmates hear when they knocked and shouted at the front door. Harry proposed climbing up and dropping down through the opening in the roof.
A portion also of the flesh was secured, as Harry, Reggy, and Edgar expressed a strong wish to taste it. The party then commenced their return home. On reaching the spot where the kangaroo had been killed, they caught sight of a pack of dingoes, to which they gave chase. Bruce and his companions pulled down several of these pests to the settler, and others were shot.
They might have been on dry ground in five minutes if they had gone in the right direction." Notwithstanding Harry's warning, Hector insisted on getting upon the roof. "The water would surely not rise much above the floor, and as the house had withstood the hurricane it would not be knocked down by the flood," he said. Calling to Reggy to help him, he climbed up and took his seat on the ridge.
No! you Americans take people on their 'face value, as my brother Reggy says, and we always want to know what are the 'securities. And then American men are more gallant, though," she declared mischievously, "I think you are an exception in that way. Indeed," she went on, "the more I see of your countrymen the less you seem like them.
A group of passengers in the main saloon was discussing, more or less stealthily, Monty's "misdemeanors," when Reggy Vanderpool sauntered lazily in, his face displaying the only sign of interest it had shown in days. "Funny predicament I was just in," he drawled. "I want to ask what a fellow should have done under the circumstances."
Biddy and Betty were as active as ever, carrying out all sorts of things, some of which might have been left behind, until Harry and Reggy pointed out what was considered of most value. Already the dray was as full as it could hold. Bendigo shouted out that it was time to be off, and jumped on the seat. "We go now, we go now!" he cried.
"Come on, we're off," shouted Thaxton from the stairway. Clifford seized Gethryn's arm, Elliott and Rhodes crowded on behind. A small earthquake shock followed as the crowd of students launched itself down the stairs. "Braith doesn't approve of my cutting the atelier so often," said Gethryn, "and he's right. I ought to have stayed." "Reggy going to back out?" cooed Clifford. "No," said Rex.
"Harry and Reggy, we must sell our lives dearly," exclaimed Paul, as he prepared for a last desperate struggle with the blacks, who were infuriated at the loss of so many of their companions. The fact that they had not taken to flight showed that they were a fierce and warlike tribe, very different from most of those found in the southern parts of Australia.
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