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Under Dudgeon's ownership Waroona Downs flourished, and later he acquired the largest station in the district. The success he enjoyed at Waroona Downs followed him. His ownership of Taloona alone made him the richest man in the community. But no amount of money could bring back to him the nature which had been his before the bitterness of betrayal changed him to a misanthropical cynic.
Is that why you wouldn't stay? Was it too rough for you?" He looked round the little sitting-room in which she had the furniture and nicknacks from her room at the bank. "There's a bit of a difference I will say," he went on as she did not reply. "It's a flower-garden to a stock-yard to compare this room with the hut you had out at Taloona. Look here.
Eustace remains at Taloona she will not require the furniture; it will be at least a couple of weeks before we can have any sent up to serve us. How much does Mrs. Eustace want for the hire of what is in the house at present?" "Twenty pounds a week," Gale replied, without moving a muscle, even when Wallace flared up at the proposal. "Utterly preposterous," he cried.
The hard, rough life you lead at Taloona makes it very difficult for you to get up your strength after the experience you have had." He smiled grimly his facial muscles had been so long strangers to anything approaching tokens of mirth or pleasure that they did not move easily. "I suppose it is a bit rough out there," he said. "But then, you see, I'm used to a rough life I've had it all my days.
There had been the attack on Taloona; the second sum of money had been stolen and the rough treatment meted out both to old Dudgeon and the sub-inspector showed that the two outlaws were men who were prepared to play a desperate game to preserve their liberty and booty. It was this desperation which gave the most popular clue to the solution of the mystery surrounding the death of Eustace.
From the time he arrived from Taloona she had always shown kindliness and gentleness towards him, even when, during the early days of his convalescence, he had been impatient and exacting. Nor could he find a reason for the change in the brief profession he had made of his love for her.
Don't you think the dash through the town was a trick to draw everyone away so as to leave the way clear for a second man to do the burgling?" "I don't see who the second man could be. The handkerchief shows Eustace was the man who was with him at Taloona. I don't think he has another man with him now. He is doing it single-handed and seems to be enjoying it, too."
He was not a lady's man, even under the best of circumstances; with the conviction that Eustace was the culprit, not only in the bank robbery, but also in the outrage at Taloona, he wished to have as little to say to her as possible. The sooner she was out of the place the better he would be pleased.
The Rider and his mate Eustace, as is generally believed went out to Taloona to settle up with the old man. They found you there and, to blind you as to the real character of Dudgeon, they pretended to make him a prisoner. Then you showed fight, Dudgeon was shot by the bullet intended for you, the lamp was upset, and the place set on fire just as the troopers I sent arrived on the scene."
That's what makes it strange, to my mind, this white horse and rider being seen on the Taloona road the day she leaves the place." "Where are the troopers Conlon and his mate?" "Went away three days ago, sir, on orders from head-quarters." "And Mr. Dudgeon?" "Oh, he's still at Taloona. They say he's pretty well right again, except that he limps with a stick." "I suppose his gold was taken?"
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