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It had been decided that they would go direct from Melbourne to Nobble, not round by Sydney so as to see more of the world, and thus spend more money, but by the direct route, taking the railway to Albury and the coaches, which they were informed were running between Albury and Nobble.
He had been selected to stand by his friend at the marriage, and he, thinking that another witness would be beneficial, had taken Adamson with him. His only wonder was that any one should dispute a fact which was at the time so notorious both at Ahalala and at Nobble.
At a town called Nobble, about three hundred miles west of Sydney, there lived a man, supposed to be knowing in gold, named Crinkett, with whom they had corresponded, and to whom they intended, in the first instance, to apply. And about twenty miles beyond Nobble were the new and now much reputed Ahalala diggings, at which they purposed to make their first debut.
'Of course you've heard of the "Old Stick-in-the-Mud"? Dick told him that they had heard of that very successful mining enterprise since their arrival at Nobble. 'You ask on the veranda at Melbourne, or at Ballarat, or at Sydney. If they don't tell you about it, my name's not Crinkett. You put your money, what you've got, into ten-shilling shares.
But Gilbert thought that this was a dangerous attitude to maintain. "If you maintain it too long, you'll never get an office," he said, "and so the only work you'll be able to do will be critical work: you'll never get a chance to do anything constructive; and if you let the Government nobble you, and give you an Under Secretaryship the moment they see you getting dangerous, then you're done for.
Ahalala was twenty-three miles from Nobble, and a coach had been established through the bush for the benefit of miners going to the diggings; but Mick was of opinion that miners ought to walk, with their swag on their backs, when the distance was not more than forty miles.
Here they stayed but a few hours and then went on by coach on their journey to Nobble. From one wretched vehicle they were handed on to another, never stopping anywhere long enough to go to bed, three hours at one wretched place and five at another, travelling at the rate of six miles an hour, bumping through the mud and slush of the bush roads, and still going on for three days and three nights.
He made no complaint, however, and no apology, but was prepared to start. 'That's all nonsense, said Dick, catching hold of him. 'You put your swag down, said Caldigate, also catching hold of the other shoulder. 'What am I to put my swag down for? I'm a-going back to Nobble. Crinkett'll give me work. 'You're not going to leave us in that way, said Dick.
Bozzle was very careful, and full of "evidence." The letter therefore was sent on to Colonel Osborne. "If there's billy-dous going between 'em we shall nobble 'em," said Bozzle. Trevelyan tore his hair in despair, but believed that there would be billy-dous.
She had been known to the banks at Nobble, also even at Sydney; and had been supposed at one time to have been worth twenty or thirty thousand pounds. Then she had joined herself with Crinkett, and all their money had been supposed to vanish in the Polyeuka mine. No doubt there had been enough in that to create animosity of the most bitter kind against Caldigate.
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