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Updated: June 28, 2025
She had not been twenty-four hours in Waroona before it was known that she was a young widow left with a stepson to bring up and educate on the rents from an impoverished Irish estate. Year by year it became more and more difficult, she said, to collect those rents from tenants to whom politics were more attractive than commercial obligations.
A mile down the road he turned his horse into the bush and rode straight for the range which rose between the township and Waroona Downs. Skirting the flanking spurs, he followed on until he caught sight of the tracks left by the horsemen who had ridden after the fugitives the night before.
"That's what made Bill call out. We didn't know there was a white horse in the whole of Waroona, let alone two of them." "Was that on the main road?" Brennan asked. "On the main road just about five miles out." "I know every horse in the district, and there's not a white one among them," Gale said. "These were white white as milk," the man repeated. "It was what made us look."
"You feel sure of that?" "I'm quite sure. I wish you had been here to have seen it." "I did see it." "But you were at Waroona Downs." "So I was. It was there I saw it. That man and his companion stuck the house up. I was asleep on the verandah and they must have crept on me, for when I awakened I was bound hand and foot. The man you describe was standing in front of me.
When the time came for her to sign the formal documents which made Waroona Downs hers, Wallace placed a chair at the table; but she ignored it, bending down gracefully as she signed her name in beautifully flowing characters. Old Dudgeon's hands, knotted and stiff with many a day's toil, were not familiar with the pen.
When he returned to the bank, Brennan rode up at a gallop. "Oh, a terrible thing has happened!" he cried as he came into the office. "Waroona Downs has been burned to the ground in the night and both Mrs. Burke and old Patsy burned to death in their beds. I warned her that one of these days that drunken old man would do some damage, but she wouldn't listen to me.
Although I engaged you, if you think you will do better for yourself by staying here, don't let me prevent you." "Stay on here, Mrs. Eustace? What, after you've gone? No, ma'am, no! If you don't want me any longer, there may be someone else in Waroona who does, but if this is the only place where I can stay, I'm off to Wyalla," Bessie exclaimed.
Were he free to see her he did not fear defeat; but while he was lying helpless at Taloona anything might be happening at Waroona Downs. That morning the doctor had told him it would be weeks before he would be well enough to resume work if he did not make more rapid progress.
"The bank was robbed yesterday all the money taken, including the gold which had been sent up to pay you for Waroona Downs. Soon after the robbery, Eustace, the manager, disappeared." "Then who's Wallace?" "He is one of the officials from the head office." "But he had the money ready to pay me. How could that be if " "He arrived with it to-day he was expected about noon, I believe."
With her face still averted from him she ceased, and he also was silent, not trusting himself to speak. "That is why I must stay here. The mere fact of being near you gives me strength. If you are going away, then I will go also, for Waroona would then be impossible for me. But not till then, Fred, not till then. I only want to know you are here, only to see you sometimes. Do not deny me that."
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