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Updated: June 4, 2025
When she heard a footstep in the forest behind her, she started and turned and stared into the dim aisles of the gidia, as though she expected to see his ghost. 'Mithsis mithsis me Wombo plenty my been look out for you. Plenty mine frightened to go along a head-station. Lady Bridget laughed hysterically.
The buggy was quite a smart bush turn-out comfortable seats in front a varnished cover, now lying back; a well behind, filled with luggage; a narrow back seat whence Cudgee a smaller edition of Wombo sprang down. Cudgee, too, stared at Lady Bridget and clicked his teeth in admiration, exclaiming: 'Hullo! New feller Mithsis.
For Wombo, tweaking aside the concealing blanket, showed the smooth shaft of a spear transfixed in the quivering flesh of Oola's arm, above the elbow. He had broken off the long end of the spear to expedite their flight so he explained in his queer lingo but Oola had cried so much that he had not been able to draw out the rest of the shaft.
'Please come out at once, I want you. The woman's face became sullen on the instant. 'I can't come now. I'm in the middle of my baking. 'But don't you see? The thing is important. This poor gin has a spear through her arm it must be attended to immediately. Wombo is hurt too. The wounds must be washed and dressed.... Look at the poor creatures.
Her face was turned full towards the man hidden by the creepers, who was watching her with intense interest, but she was unconscious of his gaze. Wombo retreated slowly. Oola, cowed, whimpering, behind him. Then, she made an appeal to Lady Bridget, stretching out her unbandaged arm imploringly. That fellow medsin man husband belonging to me.
Him come close-up long-a srub throw 'im spear, NULLA-NULLA plenty look out Wombo. YUCKE! YUCKE! Lathychap suppose Massa let Wombo sit down long-a head-station two day, three day black fellow get tired up stick no more look out. No catch 'im Wombo. Lady Bridget came down the steps from the veranda and went up to McKeith. 'Colin, what the gin says is true.
If he had curbed his anger, shown sympathy with the two wild children of Nature who were better than himself, in this at least that they had known how to love and cling to each other in spite of the blows of fate! He had horse-whipped Wombo for loving Oola, and swift retribution had come upon himself.... That he should have lost Bridget because of the loves of Wombo and Oola!
'My sympathies are with the gin's husband. What business has Wombo to steal another man's wife? 'The husband broke her head with a nulla-nulla, and she loves Wombo and Wombo loves her. I consider that any woman, whether she's black or white, who lives with her husband while she loves another man is committing a sin, said Lady Bridget hotly.
She described the chivalrous SUNDOWNER who had on one occasion helped her through a week's washing; and Zack Duppo the horsebreaker, whose Christmas pudding had been a culinary triumph, and the loyalty of faithful Wombo, who had done violence to all his savage instincts in acting as house-servant until the advent of the Malay boy Kuppi. She told of her first experience of a summer out West.
'Leave her Ladyship out of it, will you, McKeith snarled, his teeth showing between his tense lips. 'I would do that willingly, Boss, for there's no disrespect intended I can assure you. Only it means that this Wombo business will have to be reported, and if you can help me to the right evidence well, so much the pleasanter for all parties, returned the Police Inspector craftily.
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