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One of the troopers has come back. Taloona is burnt and both Dudgeon and Durham injured." When they reached the dining-room they found Mrs. Eustace with Brennan. "I can be of use. I know how to nurse. I've learned how to give first aid. Let me go out and attend to them till the doctor comes. He is twenty miles away, and they may bleed to death before he can get there. I've got some bandages.
His head was still swimming from the concussion of his fall, and into it there came the humming he had experienced after his adventure at Taloona. It made him so dizzy that he sank down on a boulder, resting his head on his hands until the humming and throbbing should pass.
It's never been seen in any of the paddocks for miles round, for everyone is on the watch for it. And a man can't hide a white horse in a hollow log it must run somewhere some time." "Where is Mrs. Eustace?" "She's at Smart's cottage. She came in from Taloona yesterday.
They tell me I fell against the counter in the bank and might have killed myself entirely with the terrible smash I came against the wretched sharp edge, only that I struck it with my face instead of the back of my head, though it's little thanks to the bank, seeing the way they made the clumsy thing." "It's no use your going out to Taloona," Gale exclaimed.
He might set the whole place on fire over my head, and I should never know it till I was burned to death perhaps." "May I make inquiries for you to-morrow, when I get into town? Mr. Gale may know " "Mr. Gale? Oh, he's a likely man to bother himself about my affairs now. It was Mr. Gale stopped me from going to Taloona when I heard first about your accident.
"I have little to add. I could not bring myself to give up the letter until I was sure it was really yours. Lest anyone else should see it, I hid it where no one could find it. But when I came down from my room again, Mr. Wallace told me you had been in and had gone back to Taloona. So I kept it until I could be sure." "Sure of what?" "Whether you had had it."
But that makes no difference to what I had to tell you. I can still tell you. But I must say something else first. You wouldn't stay on at Taloona when I asked you, but that was your business. Now this has come to you. I'm no hand at talking sympathy, but if you want anything that I can get for you it's yours you understand?"
"But still look at the chance it has given the thieves to get away with the gold." "They haven't gone, sir," Brennan said quietly. "How do you know?" "One of them was seen only last night," Brennan continued in a low tone. "He was seen on the Taloona road, riding the white horse. That is what puzzles me. How does he hide that horse?
He remained where he was, silent. "Don't you wish to see me?" she asked, still regarding him with a look of wondering amazement. "Has anything happened? Is that the reason you have never been to see me since I came back why you never sent a word to me at Taloona? Have they have they found out anything more about Charlie?"
It was hard to make you wake, but we had to Dad had taken Eustace's handkerchief we knew you would be convinced if you found it after seeing me and we we shot your horse, and made the others bolt." "But afterwards? What happened to Eustace afterwards?" he asked as she stopped. "We had to keep him there, then, because he knew. He was there in the cellar the night you came from Taloona.
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