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Peter M'Laughlan was out on the run helping the station-hands to pull out cattle that had got bogged in the muddy waterholes and were too weak to drag themselves out, when, about dusk, a gentlemanly "piano-fingered" parson, who had come to the station from the next town, drove out in his buggy to see the men. He spoke to Peter M'Laughlan.
After doing due justice to the broken puppy biscuits in the inset-trough, she curled herself up for a nap. The clangor and glare of the oncoming express awakened her. She cowered in one corner of the crate. Just then two station-hands began to move the express packages out to the edge of the platform. One of them noticed the displaced board of the crate.
Their father well, he isn't very steady; and they like to get over here when they can, and each tries to come without the other knowing it. Binjie will be here before long, I expect. Poor fellows, it must be very dull for them over there. Fancy, week after week without seeing anyone but their father, the station-hands, and the sheep! Now that you're here, I expect they'll come more than ever."
Among the arrivals by the life-car was the skipper of the "White Shield," and there was also a man wrapped in a cloak. "He aint a sailor," said one of the station-hands, criticising the dress of the man in the cloak. "It is the passenger," said Wort. He was a man still young, and his clothes had an outlandish cut. He walked up the beach, the four young knights having preceded him.
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