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He only remained indoors a few minutes, and presently we saw him galloping towards Trenfield and Ruth, with whom he stayed talking for even a still shorter time; then, without taking any notice of us which was most unusual for him he put spurs to his horse and rode straight for the scrub, towards his home. 'There is something the matter, said Will.
A man who called himself a gentleman would be made to account for his lack of manners. One Saturday afternoon, as Walter Trenfield and Ruth were driving the cows down to the creek to drink, and Will and I were idling about on the seaward hill, we saw Patrick Kenna ride up to the house, dismount and knock.
Trenfield, who was stooping at the moment, stood erect, and then, facing the parson, again raised his hand to his cap. His face was deadly pale, and his deep-set bright blue eyes seemed to have suddenly shrunken and drawn back, and his whole body was trembling. 'Look at me, fellow, said Mr Sampson, for the second time. 'I am looking at you, sir.
But away out on the horizon were the sails of a whale-ship which had been cruising about the coast for some days past; and though my mother kept her own counsel for a long year, we children soon knew that all three had escaped in the whaler, for my brother Harry had received a letter from Trenfield.
Then, when all was ready and a dark night favoured, May and the other two men were to launch the boat and make their way with all speed down the coast to Little Nobby's nearly twenty miles distant from where the boat was hidden take on board the water and provisions and put to sea; it being May's intention, whether Trenfield joined him or not, to make to the northward for Timor in the East Indies.
My brother tried to take the weapon from him, but Trenfield tossed him aside with one hand as if he were a straw. Then for a minute he looked at the prostrate man in silence; once he raised the gun by the muzzle, then he threw it aside, and, kneeling beside the clergyman, placed his face close to his. 'You dog, you dog, you damned dog! I could choke you now as you lie, you brute beast.
Presently, as we lay upon the grass, looking out upon the sea, Walter Trenfield and the aboriginal joined us, and whilst they made a fire to boil a billy of tea, my brother Harry, hearing the call of a wonga pigeon, picked up his gun and went into the scrub to shoot it. I must now relate something of the previous history of this young man Trenfield.
'Oh, Will, I cried, 'don't tell me any more! I feel so sick. Nearly half an hour passed, and then we saw Harry and Trenfield, holding each other's hand like two children, coming towards us. They sat down near us, and then the young convict placed his big, brown hands over his face, and heavy sobs broke from his broad chest. 'Oh, God! Master Harry! he cried, 'is there no justice in the world?
Both May and Trenfield always behaved well and soberly, and although they had been whale-ship sailors they were always very careful in their language when we were with them.
In the centre, however, the walls approached so closely to each other about half way down within a few inches, in fact that they were blocked up with what appeared to be a mass of decaying branches, fallen leaves and such débris. Walter Trenfield went first, then Will, and Harry and I followed.
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