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Done found the trip to Boobyalla very much longer than he had expected, but the mates reached the homestead at about two o'clock. The place was almost deserted. Two or three wolfish cattle-dogs ran from the huts, and barked at them in a half hearted kind of way; a black boy shouted from the shed, and two gins came to the kitchen door, watching them.
Ryder's servant during the latter's stay at Boobyalla, and as there was always a danger of a man of the Honourable Walter's inexperience being bushed if he rode alone, Yarra followed him on many of his long rides into the ranges, and helped him to explore the gorges and secret recesses of the heavily-timbered hills; but as a rule Mrs.
'Give me what title you please, Mrs. Macdougal, he said; 'you are my queen. Mr. Ryder had done Macdougal of Boobyalla a great service in rescuing him and his sovereigns from the revolver and the predatory fingers of Dan Coleman and one of his gang, and was always welcome to Boobyalla.
Mrs. Macdougal's guests did not mind Macdougal in the least, however; the eccentricities of Old Dint-the-Tin were well known to the neighbouring squatters, and from their point of view, as visitors at Boobyalla on pleasure bent, he did not count.
Macdougal thinks he is an earl at least, and has woven quite a romance about him. She will be glad to see you. Done's mind had flown to Burton's estimate of Ryder, and Lucy's evident admiration of, him gave him a little uneasiness. 'Is Mrs. Macdougal of Boobyalla quite well? he asked. 'Quite. But you must not laugh at her. One gets to like her. 'If one is quite determined.
It was a stern chase, and once Trooper Casey came so near to overhauling the gray horse that he ventured a revolver shot; but after that the hunted man drew away, and the troopers lost sight of him in the timber. The pursuit was maintained for about an hour, and then the pursuers came upon Galah trotting quietly back towards Boobyalla, riderless and without a saddle.
If her colour was not all natural, it was a very excellent imitation. She looked charming. 'Sure you are quite ready, my dear? she said. 'Macdougal will be waiting. Macdougal of Boobyalla, you know. This to Jim: 'And he's a most impatient wretch. Saying au revoir? she queried archly, after a pause. 'I was bidding Mr. Done good-bye, said Lucy.
The only human creature about Boobyalla in whose company he seemed to be quite at home was Yarra, the half-caste aboriginal boy, scandalously reputed in the neighbourhood not without excellent reason, it must be admitted to be his own son.
The half-caste remained with him for about an hour, and then returned into the gorge, and keeping to the bed of the creek picked up his horse, a sober old cattle nag, where he had left him at the foot of the range. Yarra returned to Wat Ryder early in the forenoon of the following day. The trooper the boy shot at the window was being nursed at Boobyalla, the others were away beating the scrub.
Already Walter Ryder had infused a new strain into Marcia Macdougal's character terror, the terror that is akin to love, had endowed her with a womanly gravity. Though the other guests had been gone a fortnight or more, Ryder still remained at Boobyalla. Lucy Woodrow was deeply interested in Ryder.
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