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But the fact that he had walked "looking for work," as he said, drew so much attention to him that offers were made from all sides to hire his services. He accepted the best, and went to Waroona Downs with the then owner, one Henry Lambton, who, with his wife and daughter, resided at the house beyond the range.
"Well, I was thinking that nobody knows who they are for certain, and what difference would it make to them, or to any of us, if they rode down the main street of Waroona under the very noses of yourself and all the troopers in Australia?" "That is scarcely likely, Mrs. Burke." "I don't know," she repeated. "You don't know who they are, or you would have them inside the walls of the lock-up.
Beyond that he could not go. He picked up the clothes and examined them. They were of nondescript grey, such as can be bought by the hundred at any bush store in Australia, and were similar to what the man was wearing the night he visited Waroona Downs. The hat was missing, as Durham expected it would be. The pockets were empty.
"I've harnessed up, so if you and Mrs. Eustace " "I'm staying, but she will come back with you the experience has been rather trying for her." "Trying?" Gale exclaimed. "She's the noblest woman I've ever met. I don't care what's the truth about the bank affair, but there's not a man in Waroona who won't reverence that woman when he hears what she has done to-night."
But Waroona Downs with the woman he was beginning to idolise daily with him! "Will you come?" she asked softly, as he did not speak. "If I only could," he answered. "There, doctor, you heard him? I'll tell Patsy to spread the blankets on the floor of the waggonette, and sure he'll never know he's moving till he's there." "It may shake you up a bit," the doctor said, as Mrs. Burke left the hut.
"Brennan and I found him, as we were returning from Waroona Downs this evening. He was lying on his face in the creek where it crosses the road in the range. He was drenched with water from head to foot, but the water at the ford is barely six inches deep. There were no footprints on the track either side of the ford to show how he had entered the water.
But I am quite sure that the suggestion will be treated with contempt." "Tell me where Mr. Dudgeon lives." "He has another station on the opposite side of the township to Waroona Downs, about ten miles out. He wants to sell that, too, and I don't mind saying we all hope he will soon find a purchaser." "How many men has he there?"
In the roadway, close to it, two long furrows were scored, while at irregular intervals up the rise flecks of blood glistened. Durham leaped from his saddle and picked up the hat. On the lining was stamped the name of the chief Waroona storekeeper, Allnut. "He's a local man," Durham said quickly. "Keep those fools back."
For him to see you now would probably mean his death. You remember how bitterly he resented the sale of Waroona Downs to you your presence now would only irritate him and then " he shrugged his shoulders. "My presence? And what of the presence of the woman whose husband " "You must not say that," Gale exclaimed quickly. "It is unjust unwomanly " The grey eyes flashed like steel.
The sub-inspector had barely spoken since he returned to the station; but if he wanted help he would not hesitate to appeal for it, Brennan told them, adding that they need not worry the criminal who could outwit the sleuth-hound of the force was not yet born. "But the Rider of Waroona is no fool," one of the men remarked. "Neither is Sub-Inspector Durham," Brennan retorted.
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