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Yet it would be a safe wager that outside official scientific circles, there is not a single organization in America that knows we have a Sphinx of our own in the West that antedates Egyptian archæology by 8,000 years, and stone lions older than the columns of Phrygia, and kings' palaces of 700 and 1,000 rooms. Am I yarning; or dreaming? Neither!
That evening when we'd started home, we stopped some time yarning with a chap we met at the gate; and I happened to look back, and saw Mary hanging out the rest of the things she thought that we were out of sight. Then I understood why those things weren't ready while we were round. For the next day or two Mary didn't take the slightest notice of me, and I kept out of her way.
We'd heard of him before from Goring and the other troopers; but he'd been on duty in another district, and hadn't come in our way. One evening we were all sitting smoking and yarning in the big room of the hotel, and Jim, for a wonder we'd been washing up when we saw one of the camp gentlemen come in, and a strange officer of police with him.
However, while yarning with some old residents at Solong, I mentioned the Brassingtons, and picked up a few first links in the story. The young couple were married and went to Sydney for their honeymoon. The story went that they intended to take a trip to the old country and Paris, to be away a twelve-month, and the house was to be finished and ready for them on their return.
The Second Mate spoke. "The men mustn't know, Sir," he warned him. "It'd be a mess if they did!" "Yes," said the Old Man. He spoke to me. "Remember that, Jessop," he said. "Whatever you do, don't go yarning about this, forrard." "No, Sir," I replied. "And you too, boy," said the Skipper. "Keep your tongue between your teeth. We're in a bad enough mess, without your making it worse. Do you hear?"
Mitchell covered his face with a piece of calico, because the moonlight and wind kept him awake. We caught up with an old swagman crossing the plain, and tramped along with him till we came to good shade to have a smoke in. We had got yarning about men getting lost in the bush or going away and being reported dead.
The Reserve Man lowered the window and peered out into the darkness. A flurry of snow drifted into the dimly lighted carriage. "Hallo!" he ejaculated. "We're here. Bless me, how the time goes when one gets yarning." The Volunteer rose and held out his hand. "My name is Armitage," he said, and named two exclusive clubs, one in London and the other in New York.
The Adjutant laughed and lit a cigarette, and once again became immersed in his paper. To the casual observer the scene was a very normal one. Four men in a dug-out, yarning and reading; while outside the occasional whine of a shell, the dirty deeds of a Stokes gun, the noises of the trenches filled the air. Nothing unusual, nothing out of the way except something, an indefinable something.
Crawshay sighed. "The memory of that experience," he began, settling down in his chair, "Well, well, you ought to have got over that by this time," the captain interrupted. "What can I do for you, Mr. Crawshay? I have been yarning with the purser a little longer than usual, this morning, and I have some rounds to do."
He was on his way down from that new place of M'Gregor's, where he's been; and he had come round by Kulkaroo to see one of the very few friends he has in the world; but he lost his labour, for this cove had left the station more than a year before. "However, we had been yarning for hours, and the station chaps were about turning-in, when we heard someone coming in a hurry.
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