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But at other periods of the year, there were few men and fewer women scattered over the area marked on the map as Waroona, and including as many square miles as some English counties possess acres. Wherefore the arrival of any new-comer was an event; but when that new-comer was a woman, and one, moreover, of the many personal charms and accomplishments of Mrs.
Mrs. Eustace took the chair Harding placed for her and he sat down by her. "Who did it?" she asked. "No one knows yet," he answered. She looked at him quickly. "Do they think it was himself?" "No; it could not have been." "I am glad of that," she said. "I have always feared he would. Then there could have been no doubt. Was he found?" "Yes. Durham was driving in from Waroona Downs with Brennan.
A dozen questions forced themselves upon his mind. Since his arrival at Waroona Downs, no word had reached him from Brennan, no mention had been made of the robberies. When, once or twice, he had attempted to speak of them, Mrs. Burke told him the doctor's orders were that he was not to be allowed to dwell upon anything likely to disturb him, and she insisted on carrying out those orders.
Yet there were several reasons which might account for that omission. But his failure either to see or to communicate with her after her return to Waroona was entirely another matter. When the third day came without a sign or word from him she took the bull by the horns and sent a note asking him to see her that evening.
In a community where men predominate, every woman ranks as a belle; but throughout Waroona and the districts for hundreds of miles round, Kitty was queen, acknowledged even by her sister rivals.
Waroona Downs was fifteen miles from Waroona township by the road, and ten as the crow flies, the intrusion of a rocky and precipitous range making it impossible to take the shorter and more direct route.
He entered it, and continued close to the shore until he suddenly emerged on to the rock which formed the break in the road over which the stream rippled. He rode on to the road and reined in his horse near the spot where he had first seen the pool the night he was on his way to Waroona Downs.
So Kitty had looked when he met her for the first time after her flight with O'Guire; so she had looked the last time he had seen her when she had pleaded for mercy to her dying parents and he had taunted her and mocked her till she turned and left him with curses as deep-voiced as any he himself could have uttered. "This is Mrs. Burke, the purchaser of Waroona Downs, Mr.
"You mean the purchase money for Waroona Downs, Mr. Dudgeon?" Eustace replied suavely. "You are rather early, are you not?" "I gave you notice three days ago. You'll pay over or the deal's off. Which is it?" Harding, the assistant, passed a document to Eustace. "These are the terms of the sale, Mr. Dudgeon," Eustace said in the same smooth tone.
Once let the gold be safely removed to the bank, he would return to the cave and wait till, as he was certain would happen sooner or later, the Rider came for his disguise. Then Nora Burke should have her papers returned in safety, and he would have won more than the promised five thousand pounds reward. For the first time since the outrage at Taloona, Dudgeon visited Waroona.
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