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Jennie did not understand the map very well; but she seemed satisfied with Rollo's assurances that he himself could find all the places. "It is all right, you may depend," said Rollo. "I can find the way, you may be sure." So he put up the map, bade his mother good by, and then he and Jennie sallied forth.
"Wherefore I decide that, as Henry intended to let Rollo have the dipper for the whole expedition, and as he took Rollo's basket, and Rollo agreed to let him have some drink, as conditions, therefore, he ought not to have reclaimed the dipper.
'Mrs Wilson and I are old friends, sir. We come from the same town. In fact Rollo's face cleared. 'By George! Market what's-its-name! Why, of course. Then she 'Just so, sir. If you recollect, you asked me once if I had ever been in love, and I replied in the affirmative. 'And it was 'Mrs Wilson and I were engaged to be married before either of us came to London.
"Well," said he, "I'll go that way with you." So that was settled, too. A short time after this conversation, Rollo's father and mother, and also Jennie, came in. Mr. Holiday rang the bell for the waiter to bring up breakfast.
When, some few years after, the steward approached the island on an autumn night, in honour of Rollo's invitation to attend the funeral of the Widow Fleming, his eye unconsciously sought the guiding light on the hill-side. "Ah!" said he, recollecting himself, "it is gone, and we shall see it no more. Rollo will live on the main, and this side of the island will be deserted. Her light gone!
'Then do let him keep it! interposed Miss Hazel, facing round. 'What possible concern of Mr. Rollo's are my horses? 'Simply that I am going to ask him to choose them. He knows more about such things than any one else, and I dare say he will give me his help. I wanted to know your fancy, though very likely it can't be met, about the other horses; colour and so forth.
" . . . He was satisfied that the alluvial went down to a depth at Kalgoorlie just as it did at Kanowna. All the conditions were favourable to deep-leads of alluvial. " . . . Rollo's Bore at Coolgardie had proved the existence of alluvial gold at great depths. " . . . So far the alluvial men had been working on a false bottom."
'They will make a combination with other mill-owners and undersell him; and paying less wages they can afford to do it, for a time. And a certain time will settle Rollo's business. 'I think he has lost his wits, Prudentia repeated, for the third or fourth utterance. 'Then another thing he has done But really, Arthur, my dear, we must go. 'O tell us some more! said Miss Kennedy.
The prospect of Mrs Rollo's reception was so dazzling as to throw all other experiences into the shade; but the two intervening days were full of excitement, for Peggy was delighted to play "country cousin" for her friend's benefit, and the two girls drove about from one place of interest to another, from early morning until late at night.
'Aren't you going to introduce me, Dane? I must know her, you know. It is quite impossible to describe on paper the flourish with which Rollo's horse responded. Like a voluntary before the piece begins, like the elegant and marvellous sweep of lines with which a scribe surrounds his signature, the bay curvetted and wheeled and danced before the proposed introduction.
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