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The detective considered this a very probable supposition, and an invasion of the Silver Stream workings was planned for next morning. SHORTLY after eight o'clock on the night of Dick's journey to Yarraman the figure of a woman approached the searcher's house and knocked softly at the front door. There was a light burning within, but the knock provoked no response.
We had two days of cattle-hunting in the Copper-mine hills, and then we started westward, in the tracks of the Cadi, to make for Barlas's station. The second day we camped at Bora Bora Creek. We had just hobbled the horses, and were about to build a fire, when Bimbi came running to us. "Master, master," he said to Drysdale, "that fellow Cadi yarraman mumkull over there. Plenty myall mandowie!"
For his own part he had thought of a desperate band, with Harry at its head and himself in a conspicuous position, raiding the gaol at Yarraman under a hail of bullets, and bearing off the prisoner in triumph; but experience had taught him that the expedients of grown-up people were apt to be disgustingly common place and ludicrously ineffective.
If they do they get the gold, an' we're all right if we don't play the fool. Rogers's reasoning was very good as far as it went; but the discovery of the boy's footprints in the drives had been kept a close secret, or even he might have admitted the wisdom of bolting without delay. Dick spent a day and two nights in the cell at the watch-house in Yarraman.
The people at Yarraman would kick up, after the other affair. I'd be glad to, Harry; but you'd best try somewhere else. 'Mr. Holden, said the young man, 'do you believe my brother guilty? The manager met his eager eyes steadily. ''Tisn't a fair question, lad, he answered. 'I always found Frank straight, an' he looked like an honest man; but that evidence would have damned a saint.
Hardy arrived home from Yarraman, and it became known that the injuries were not likely to prove mortal; so the subject lost interest and was abandoned in favour of Richard Haddon and his blood thirsty gang. 'The boy Haddon' had been captured after a desperate encounter, and would be called upon to stand his trial, along with the poor lads he had so grievously misled, at Yarrarnan next day.
Alas! in Monday morning's Mercury the editor was reluctantly compelled to repudiate the most enthralling portions of Sunday's story, but he still took a very serious view of the affair, and vehemently contended that recent facts did not in any way tend to relieve the Government of its responsibilities in the matter of increased police-protection for Yarraman and district.
A shout from Moongarr Bill cut short the monotonous corroboree tune which the two black boys had been singing at their camp some little distance away. 'My word, I believe YARRAMAN* break him hobble! At which the boys scampered off through the grass, and presently came the cracking of a stock whip among the trees.
I then suggested to these two to return; but oh no, the new chap was evidently bound to seek his fortune in London that is to say, at the Charlotte Waters Station and he merely remarked, "You, mine, boy, Burr-r-r-r-r, white fellow wurley;" he also said, "Mine, boy, walk, you, yarraman mine, boy, sleep you wurley, you Burr-r-r-r-r yarraman."
The appearance of the Waddy bushrangers in the police court excited extraordinary interest at Yarraman, and Tuesday morning witnessed something very like an exodus from Waddy. Every man and woman who could possibly get away made the journey to Yarraman, all as partisans of the prisoners.
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