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The irksome question was shelved for the moment there was peace, and before that moment passed Harding was sound asleep. Before he awakened, Mrs. Eustace visited the bank, received the doctor's message and went on her way to Taloona. She came with Gale. "Has Mr. Harding returned yet?" she asked, before Wallace could speak. "He was to bring me word whether the doctor wanted me to help to-day."
"Oh, no, I'm not going to tell you that, Mrs. Burke. As the news is all over the place, I fancied you must have heard it also. I forgot you were away in the bush. Taloona was stuck up last night and burnt to the ground; old Mr. Dudgeon was shot and is lying dangerously ill, while Mr. Durham had his skull fractured and is at death's door." Mrs. Burke reeled. "Oh, my God!" she gasped.
"That sounds all right as far as it goes. Is there any more?" "Oh, yes. Dudgeon being laid up delayed the settlement and the pair had to wait every time up to last night that the white horses have been seen was on the Taloona road, you may remember, which adds colour to the theory. Then they got tired of waiting and quarrelled between themselves, with the result that one of them got killed.
"Well, he might have stolen it. He might have taken it from the bank, or Taloona, or it might have been that other poor chap's out there, I mean," he added, nodding towards the shed where Eustace lay. "He's no bushman," Durham said. "He rides well enough for one." "Oh, yes, I admit he rides well enough for one, but many men ride besides bushmen.
Gale a list, as he very kindly offered to see to the removal if I had to go out to Taloona again." He held the door open while she passed into the residence portion of the building, and closed it after her.
Thereafter the completion of the story was easy. The victor had emptied his victim's pockets of everything except the incriminating handkerchief leaving that, perchance, to fasten upon him a part responsibility of the Taloona outrage; had taken the body on his horse and ridden with it to the ford, dropping it in the middle of the stream where it was bound to be discovered by the first person passing that way.
He hunted for the letter he had found the day he discovered the track leading to the lake among the hills, and when he could not find it, he inferred that after he had been struck down at Taloona, the two marauders had searched him and had recovered what would have been invaluable evidence against Eustace. The excuse Mrs.
On one point there was unanimity of opinion. Eustace and the man with the yellow beard had been in league. They had robbed the bank together, Eustace having drugged the other inmates so that there should be no chance of the work being disturbed. Eustace had also participated in the robbery and outrage at Taloona. He it was, the townsmen decided, who had his face hidden by the handkerchief mask.
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