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Updated: June 26, 2025
'God bless you for that, mother' said Harry fervently, and his mother looked at him sharply, surprised by his tone. 'Shine has been arrested, she said. 'The police have taken him in to Yarraman. 'Taken Shine taken! 'He was captured while I was there. Mrs. Hardy told her son the story of Shine's arrest, and Harry sat with set teeth and eyes intent for some minutes after she had finished.
Dick's confession was published in the same issue of the Yarraman Mercury and public opinion in the township had decided against the searcher in spite of his long and faithful service as teacher and superintendent. The murder theory was reluctantly abandoned. Harry Hardy called at the homestead to inquire after Chris before going to work, and was told that she was much rested but not yet up.
'Oh, no, said Dick; 'we gotter prepare our arms an' ammunition an' things. An' Saturdee night's best, 'cause the Cow Flats what have been to Yarraman buyin' things come up to the Drovers' Arms on the coach, an' walk home from there. It was agreed that Peterson should stay with Dick in the mine that night. The boys had no longer any fear of the black hole discovered at the end of the main drive.
She was alarmed for his health, and had been trying ever since the return from Yarraman to induce him to drink copious draughts of her favorite specific, camomile tea, but without success; the boy knew of no ailment and could imagine none that would not be preferable to camomile tea taken in large doses. On the following morning at about eleven o'clock a visitor called upon Mr.
In the early hours of the morning Downy drove his prisoner into Yarraman, and that day's issue of the local Mereury contained a thrilling description of the capture of the Waddy gold-stealer a description that created an unprecedented demand for the Mercury, and quite compensated the gifted editor for, the heartburnings he had endured over the bushranging fiasco.
Haddon was easily deceived, and Dick caught the three-o'clock coach. The Waddy coach took two hours to do the journey to Yarraman and did not start back till after eight, but this was not the first time the boy had made the journey alone, and his mother had no misgivings.
Waddy was a pastoral as well as a mining centre, and strange ribald men came out of the bush at intervals to 'melt' their savings at the Drovers' Arms. The Yarraman sale-yards for cattle and sheep were near Waddy too, and brought dusty drovers and droughty stockmen in crowds to the town ship every Tuesday.
His favourite authors were justified, and yet there was the dark side; thought of his mother came with a sharp twinge. 'Who went an' split Ted? 'None o' the Company, said Parrot. 'The troopers came to arrest Gable's mates, thinkin' they was men, an' Toll-bar Sam told who you was. He saw you all last night. 'Did they take Ted, an' Jacker, an' Phil right away? 'Um. Off to Yarraman.
I am coming to you. Chris answering him said, 'Come, and he went; and when he returned to Waddy Chris accompanied him. They were married very quietly at Yarraman a few months later, and Dick Haddon was the only absentee amongst their immediate friends who have figured in this story.
'After us! Peterson's face paled at this corroboration of his worst suspicions. 'My oath! Gable's in gaol at Yarraman; Phil an' Jacker an' Ted's been took, an' now they're after you. Fer what? 'Rob'ry under arms, the feller said, an' shooting with intent' r somethin'. Dick whistled incredulously. Here was fame, here was glory.
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