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 POLLIE'S PROBATION
 
 THE CROOKED STICK 
 
 OR 
 
 FOLLIES PROBATION 
 
 BY 
 
 ROLF BOLDREWOOD 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 ' ROBBERY UNDER ARMS,' ' THE MINER's RIGHT,' ' NEVERMORE,' ETC. 
 
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 MACMILLAN AND CO. 
 
 AND NEW YORK 
 1895 
 
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 CHAPTER I 
 
 The time, the close of a lurid sultry February- 
 day, towards the end of a long, dry summer 
 succeeding a rainless winter, in the arid region 
 of West Logan. A blood-red sun sinking all 
 too slowly, yet angrily, into a crimson ocean ; 
 suddenly disappearing, as if in despotic de- 
 fiance of all future rainfall. A fiery portent 
 receding into the inferno of a vast conflagra- 
 tion, was the image chiefly presented to the 
 dwellers in that pastoral desert, long heart- 
 sick with hope deferred. 
 
 The scene, a limitless stretch of plain — its 
 wearisome monotony feebly broken by belts 
 of timber or an infrequent pine-ridge. The 
 earth adust. A hopeless, steel-blue sky. 
 The atmosphere stagnated, breezeless. The 
 forest tribes all dumb. The Wannonbah 
 
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 2 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 mail-coach toiling over the furrows of a sand- 
 hill, walled in by a pine thicket. 
 
 ' Thank God ! the sun is down at last ; 
 we must sight Hy land's within the hour," 
 exclaimed the passenger on the box-seat, a 
 tall, handsome man, with ' formerly in the 
 army ' legibly impressed on form and feature. 
 ' How glad I shall be to see the river ; and 
 what a luxury a swim will be ! ' 
 
 ' Been as hot a day as ever 1 know'd, 
 Captain,' affirmed the sun-bronzed driver, 
 with slow decision ; ' but ' — and here he 
 double -thonged the off-wh(u,'Ier, as if in 
 accentuation of his statement — ' heat, and 
 flies, and muskeeters, dust and sand and bad 
 water, ain'i the wust of this road — not by a 
 long chalk ! ' 
 
 ' What the deuce can be worse ? ' demanded 
 the e\-militaire, with pardonable acerbity. 
 ' Surely no ruffians have taken to the bush 
 lately in this part of the world ?' 
 
 'Well, I did hear accidental-like as "The 
 Doctor " and two other cross chaps, whose 
 names I won't say, hatl laid it out to stick us 
 up to-da\. They'd heard that Mr. 'Iracknrll 
 was going up to Orange, and they have it in
 
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 for him along o' the last Bandamah cattle 
 racket.' 
 
 ' Stop the coach, the infernal scoundrels ! 
 What do they expect to do next ? The 
 country won't be fit for decent people to live 
 in if this sort of thing is not put a stop to.' 
 
 ' Well, Captain Devereux,' replied the 
 driver, a tall, sinewy, slow-speaking son of 
 the soil, ' if I was you I wouldn't trouble my 
 head about them no more than I could help. 
 It ain't your business, as one might say, if 
 they've a down on Tracknell. He nearly got 
 the Doctor shopped over them Bandamah 
 cattle, an' he wasn't in it at all, only them 
 Clarkson boys. My notion is that Tracknell 
 got wind of it yesterday, and forgot to come 
 a purpose.' 
 
 ' So, if a gang of rascally cattle-stealers 
 choose to stop the coach that I travel in, I 
 am to sit still because I'm not the man they 
 want, who did his duty in hunting them 
 down.' 
 
 ' Now hear reason, Captain ! There ain't 
 a chap in the district, square or cross, that 
 would touch you, or any one from Corindah 
 — no, not from here to Baringun. The place
 
 4 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 has got such a name for being liberal-like to 
 gentle and simple. If we meet those chaps 
 — and we've got the Wild Horse plain to 
 cross yet — you take my tip and say nothing 
 to them if they don't interfere with you.' 
 
 The man to whom he spoke raised his 
 head and gazed full in the speaker's face. 
 The expression of his features had changed, 
 and there was a hard set look, altogether 
 different from his usually frank and familiar 
 air, as he said, 'Are you aware that I've held 
 Her Majesty's commission ? ' 
 
 The driver took his horses in hand, and 
 sent them along at a pace to which for many 
 miles they had been strangers, as they left 
 the heavy sand of the pine-hill and entered 
 upon the baked red soil of the plain. 
 
 ' I'm dashed sorry to hear il now,' he said 
 slowly. ' Some people's mighty fond of 
 having their own way. \'cs, by Gotl ! 1 
 was afeared they'd block us there. They're 
 a-waiting ahead near that sheep break — three 
 of 'em. That's the Doctor on the grey. 
 Blast him ! ' 
 
 With this conclusively ferv(,'nt ndjuration, 
 I\lr. Joe In'ites pulled his horses into a steady
 
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 yet fast trot, and approached the three men, 
 who sat quietly on their horses near a rough 
 timber fence which, originally constructed for 
 counting a passing flock of sheep, partly 
 obstructed the road. 
 
 Captain Devereux looked keenly at the 
 strangers, then at the driver, as he drew forth 
 a revolver of the latest pattern. . 
 
 ' Listen to me, Bates ! I can make fair 
 shooting with this at fifty yards. When they 
 call on you to stop, draw up the team quietly 
 but keep them in hand. Directly I fire, send 
 your horses along. It is a chance if they 
 offer to follow.' 
 
 ' For God's sake, Captain, don't be rash,' 
 said the young fellow earnestly. ' I'm no 
 coward, but remember there's others on the 
 coach. Once them chaps sees Tracknell 
 ain't a passenger, they'll clear — take my 
 word. You can't do no good by fighting 
 three armed men.' 
 
 ' Do as you're told, my good fellow,' re- 
 turned his passenger, who seemed transformed 
 into quite another personage from the good- 
 natured, easy-going gentleman with whom he 
 had been chatting all day, ' unless you wish
 
 6 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 me to believe that you are in league with 
 robbers and murderers.' 
 
 Joe Bates made no further remonstrance, 
 but drew the reins carefully through his hands 
 in the method affected by American stage- 
 coach drivers, as he steadily approached the 
 spot where the men sat, statue-like, on their 
 horses. As the coach came abreast of them 
 the man on the grey turned towards it, and, 
 with a raised revolver in his hand, shouted, 
 ' Bail up ! ' 
 
 The leaders stopped obedient to the rein. 
 As they did so Captain 1 )evereux fired 
 three shots in rapid succession. The first 
 apparently took effect on the rider of the 
 grey horse, whose right arm fell to his side 
 the instant after he had discharged his pistol. 
 The second man staggered in his seat, and 
 the horse of the third robber reared and fell 
 over on his rider, who narrowly escaped 
 being crushed. At the same moment, at a 
 shout from the driver, the team started at a 
 gallop, and taking the road across the i)lain, 
 liardly relaxed their speed until llu; hotel at 
 the angle of the Miicken/.ie River was in 
 sight.
 
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 Looking back, they caught one glimpse of 
 their quondam foes. Two were evidently 
 wounded, while the third man was reduced 
 to the grade of a foot -soldier. There was, 
 therefore, no great probability of pursuit by 
 this highly irregular cavalry force. 
 
 'By George! Captain,' said the driver, 
 touching up the leaders with renewed confi- 
 dence as he saw the outline of the roadside 
 inn define itself more clearly in the late 
 twilight, 'you can shoot straight and no 
 mistake. Dashed if I could hit a haystack 
 without a rest. The Doctor and one of the 
 other chaps fired the very minute you did. 
 One ball must have gone very close to you 
 or me. I felt pretty ticklish, you bet! for 
 I've seen the beggar hit a half-crown at 
 twenty yards before now.' 
 
 ' I believe he did hit me,' said Devereux, 
 coolly putting his hand to his side. ' It's 
 only a graze ; but We'll see when we get 
 down. I scarcely felt it at the time.' 
 
 ' Good God ! ' said the kind-hearted young 
 fellow. ' You don't say so. Captain ? There's 
 blood on your coat too. We'll have a look 
 as soon as we get to Hyland's.'
 
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 ' It's a strancre thinof thoiiQ^h,' continued 
 Devereux, ' that unless you're hard hit you 
 never know whether a tj^unshot wound is 
 serious or not. It's not my In-st knock, and 
 I certainly shouldn't like it to be the last, 
 after an enorao-ement of this nature, llow- 
 
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 ever, we shall soon see.' 
 
 Something was in the air. As they drew 
 up before the inn door, the customary group 
 awaiting one of the great events of bush life 
 was noticeably swelled. A confused murmur 
 of voices arose, in tones more earnest than 
 ordinary events called forth. The driver 
 threw his reins to a helper, and took the 
 landlord aside. 
 
 ' We've been stuck up, and there's been a 
 bit of a brush with the Doctor's mob. They've 
 got il hot, but the Captain's hit too. You 
 send a boy to Dr. Chalmers at Hastings 
 township, and that darkie of yours to the 
 police station. The Captain hatl IxlUT get 
 to bed. The mails are right and the pas- 
 sengers.' 
 
 The hotelkeeper, beyond a brief and com- 
 prehensive dedication of llu; fdse physician 
 to the infernal powers, forebore remark, and
 
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 SO addressed himself to the practical alter- 
 native, that within five minutes two eager 
 youngsters, one black and one white, were 
 riding for their lives towards the points 
 indicated, brimful of excitement not alto- 
 gether of an unpleasant nature, as being 
 the bearers of tragical tidings, and thus to 
 be held free from blame — indeed, to be 
 commended — if they did the distance in less 
 than the best recorded time. 
 
 Inside the hotel the bustle was consider- 
 able. The bar was crowded, groups of men 
 surrounded the inside passengers, who had 
 each his tale of wonder and miraculous 
 escape to relate. ' The Captain had behaved 
 like a hero. Knocked over one man, broke 
 the Doctor's shoulder, and dropped the third 
 chap's horse nearly atop of him. If there'd 
 only been another revolver in the coach 
 they'd have took the lot easy. All the same, 
 they'd just as well have let them have what 
 they'd a mind too. They only wanted to 
 serve out Tracknell, and when they found he 
 wasn't there they'd have gone off as like as 
 not. If the Captain was hurt — as looked 
 likely — his life was worth all the bushrangers
 
 lo THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 between here and Bourke, and a d d bad 
 
 swop at that.' 
 
 'Well, but some one must fH^hi,' said a 
 pot-valorous bar loafer, ' else they'd take the 
 country from us.' 
 
 • Tiiat's a (lashed sight more than yoiiCi 
 do, in my opinion,' retorted the speaker, who 
 was a back-block storekeeper. * We can do 
 our share, I suppose, when there's no other 
 show. liut we should have been all safe 
 here now if wt;'d taken 'em easy — a few 
 notes poorer, but what's that ? Ihc police 
 are paid for shooting these chaps, not us. 
 And if the Captain never goes back to 
 Corindah, but has to see it out in a bush pub 
 like this, I say it's hard lines. Unwever. 
 Chalmers will ix: hen- in an hour — il lie's 
 sober — and then we'll know.' 
 
 The sound of galloping hoofs in less 
 than the specified time caused every one to 
 adjourn to the verandah, when the question 
 of identity, as two figures emerged from a 
 cloud of dust, was (juickly settled by a local 
 expert. ' That's \\\v. doc's chestnut by the 
 way he holds his head, and he's as sober as 
 a judge.'
 
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 'How can you tell that?' queried a 
 wondering passenger. 
 
 'Why, easy enough. Doc's not man 
 enough for the chestnut except when he's 
 right off it. When he's betwixt and be- 
 tween like he takes the old bay mare. She 
 stops for him if he tumbles off, and would 
 carry him home unsensible, I b'leeve, a'most, 
 if she could only histe him into the saddle.' 
 
 The medical practitioner referred to rode 
 proudly into the inn yard unconscious of the 
 critical ordeal he had undergone, and throw- 
 ing down the reins of his clever hackney, 
 walked into the house, followed by the 
 respectful crowd. 
 
 ' Bad affair, Hyland,' he said to the 
 landlord. ' Which room ? No. 3 ? All right ! 
 I'll call for you as soon as I look the Captain 
 over. It may be nothing after all.' 
 
 Enterinof the bedroom to which the 
 wounded man had retired, he found him sit- 
 ting at a small table, smoking a cigar with his 
 coat off and busily engaged in writing a letter. 
 This occupation he relinquished, leaving the 
 unfinished sheet and greeting the medico 
 cordially. ' Glad to see you, doctor. Wish
 
 12 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 it was a pleasanter occasion. We shall soon 
 know how to class the interview — Devereux 
 slightly, seriously, or dangerously wounded 
 has been in more than one butcher's bill. 
 One may hold these things too cheap, how- 
 ever.' 
 
 ' Take off your shirt, Captain ; we're losing 
 time,' said the doctor; ' talk as much as you 
 like afterwards. Hum ! ha ! gunshot wound — • 
 small orifice — upper ribs — may have lodged in 
 muscles of the shoulders, b^xcuse me.' Here 
 he introduced a flexible shining piece of steel, 
 with which he cautiously followed the track 
 of the bullet. His brow became contracted 
 and his face betrayed disappointment as he 
 drew back the probe and wiped it medita- 
 tively in restoring it to its case. ' Can't fmd 
 the bullet — gone another direction. Take a 
 respiration, Captain. Good. Now cough, 
 if you please.' 
 
 ' Do you feel any internal sensation ; slii^ht 
 pain here, for instance.-*' The Captain 
 nodded affirmatively. ' Inclination to expec- 
 torate .'* ' 
 
 'Ye.s.' 
 
 '11a! much as 1 feared. Now put on
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 13 
 
 your shirt again ; and if I were you, I'd get 
 into bed.' 
 
 ' Not just yet, if you'll allow me ; we had 
 better settle this question first. Is the 
 matter serious — you know what I mean — or 
 only so so ? " 
 
 ' You're a strong man, Captain, and have 
 seen all this before. I shall tell you exactly 
 how the matter stands. This confounded 
 lead pill, small as it is, has not taken the line 
 I hoped it had towards the shoulder or 
 lumbar muscles. It has turned inwards. 
 You have been shot through the lungs, 
 Captain, and, of course, you know the 
 chances are against you.' 
 
 The wounded man nodded his head, and 
 lit another cigar, offering the doctor one, 
 which he took. 
 
 ' Well ! a man must go when his time 
 comes. All soldiers know that. For my 
 wife's sake and the darling of our hearts' 
 I could have wished it otherwise. Poor 
 Mary! It might have been avoided, as the 
 driver said ; but then I should have had to 
 have changed natures with some one else. 
 It is Kismet, as the Moslem says — written
 
 14 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 in the book of fate from the beofinnincf of the 
 world. And now, doctor, when will the 
 inflammation come on ? ' 
 
 'Perhaps to-night late; certainly to- 
 morrow.' 
 
 ' I may smoke, I suppose ; and 1 want to 
 write a letter before my head gets affected.' 
 
 ' Do anything you like, my dear sir. You 
 can't catch cold this weather. Take a ekiss 
 of brandy if you feel faini. No, thanks ! 
 none for me at present. See you early to- 
 morrow. I'll tell Mrs. Hyland what to do if 
 ha^morrhaofe sets in. Good-nio^ht ! ' 
 
 The doomed man smoked his cii^ar out 
 as he gazed across the broad reach of the 
 river, on a high bluff of which the house had 
 been built. ' Done out of my swim, too,' he 
 muttered, with a half smile. ' I can hardly 
 believe it all to be true, llow often a man 
 reads of this sort of thing, little e.xpecting it 
 will come home to himself. Forty - eight 
 hours, at the utmost, to prepare! llow the 
 stars glitter in the still water! To think 
 that 1 shall know so much more about them 
 before Saturday, most probably at any rate. 
 What a strange idea! i'oor Mary I what
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 15 
 
 will she do when she hears ? Poor darling ! 
 expecting me home on Saturday evening, 
 and now never to meet on earth. Never, 
 nevermore ! To think that I kissed her 
 and the bright, loving little darling Pollie^ 
 how she clung round my neck ! — for the last 
 time ! The last time ! It is hard, very hard ! 
 I feel a choking sort of feeling in my chest 
 — that wasn't there before. I had better 
 begin my letter. The letter — the last on 
 earth. ' 
 
 He flung away the fragment of the cigar, 
 and sat down wearily to the letter which was 
 to be the farewell message of Brian Devereux 
 to his wife and child. How dear they were 
 to him — reckless in some respects as his life 
 had been — until then, he never knew before. 
 He sat there writing and making memoranda 
 until long after midnight. Then he lit one 
 last cigar, which he smoked slowly and 
 calmly to the end. ' They are very good. 
 I may never get another. Who knows what 
 the morrow may bring forth ? Good-night, 
 my darlings ! ' he said, waving his hand in 
 the direction of Corindah. 'Good-night, 
 sweet fond wife and child of my love ! God
 
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 keep and preserve you when I am gone ! 
 Good -night, my pleasant liome, its easy 
 duties and measureless content ! Good-night, 
 O earth and sea. wherein I have roamed so 
 far and sailed so many a league ! Once 
 more, darlings of my heart, farewell ! A 
 long good-night ! ' 
 
 And so, having an instinctive feeling that 
 the hour was at hand when the injured 
 mechanism of the lleshly frame, grandly 
 perfect as it had hitherto proved itself, would 
 no longer provide expression for the free 
 spirit. Brian Devereux, outworn and faint, 
 sought the couch from which he was never 
 to arise. At daylight he was delirious, while 
 the fre([uent passage of blood and froth from 
 his unconscious lips confirmed the correct- 
 ness of the HK^dical diagnosis. IJcforc th(; 
 evening of the fcjllowing day the proud, 
 loyal, gallant spirit of I'rian Uevereux was 
 at rest. He lies beneath lh(! waving desert 
 acacia, in the graveyard by the river allotted 
 to the little town of Hastings. He was 
 followed to the grave by every man of note 
 and j)osition in a large pastoral district ; and 
 on the marble tombstone which was in the
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 17 
 
 after-time erected at the public cost above his 
 mortal remains are included the words : — 
 
 'Sacred to the Memory of Brian Devereux, 
 
 LATE Captain of H.M. 88th Regiment, 
 who was mortally wounded by bushrangers 
 
 WHILE making a GALLANT AND SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE. 
 
 Honour to the brave ! ' 
 
 So fell a gallant man-at-arms, obscurely slain 
 — ingloriously in a sense, yet dying in strict 
 accordance with the principles which had 
 actuated him through life. There was deep, 
 if not ostentatious, sorrow in his old regiment, 
 and more than one comrade emptied his 
 glass at the mess table more frequently the 
 night the news came of the death of Brian 
 Devereux, whom all men admired, and 
 many women had loved. 
 
 Brave to recklessness, talented, grandly 
 handsome, the darling of the mess, the idol 
 of the regiment, the descendant of a Norman 
 family long domiciled in the west of Ireland, 
 he had always exhibited, commingled with 
 brilliant and estimable qualities, a certain 
 wayward impatience of restraint which at 
 critical periods of his career had hindered 
 his chance of promotion. A good-natured
 
 1 8 THE CROOKED STICK chai'. 
 
 superior, on more than one occasion, had 
 reported favourably on differences of opinion 
 scarcely in accordance with the canons of 
 the Horse Guards. At length a breach of 
 discipline occurred too serious to be over- 
 looked. In truth, a j)rovoking. unreasonable 
 martinet narrowly escaped personal discom- 
 fiture. Captain Devereux was compelled to 
 send in his papers, to the despair of the 
 subalterns and the deep though suppressed 
 discontent of the regiment. 
 
 Sorely hurt and aggrieved, though far 
 too proud for outward sign, he resolved to 
 fjuit the mother-land for the more free, 
 untrammelled life of a new world. The 
 occasion was fortunate. The sale of his 
 commission, with a younger son's portion, 
 sufficed at that time to purchase Corindah at 
 a low price, on favourable terms. Adopting, 
 with all the enthusiasm of his nature, the 
 free, adventurous career of an Australian 
 squatter, he married the fair and trusting 
 daughter of a higli Government official — 
 herself a descendant of one of the old colonial 
 families of distinction, and bade fair, in the 
 enjoyment of unclouded domestic ha[)piness
 
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 and the management of a confessedly 
 improving property, to become one of the 
 leading pastoral magnates of the land. 
 
 But who shall appease Fate ? The bolt 
 fell, leaving the fair, fond wife a widow, and 
 the baby daughter fatherless, whose infantine 
 charms had aroused the deepest feelings of 
 his nature. 
 
 After the first transports of her grief, Mrs. 
 Devereux, with the calm decision of purpose 
 which marked her character, adopted the 
 course which was to guide her future life. 
 At Corindah she had tasted the early joys of 
 her bridal period. There her babe had been 
 born. There had her beloved, her idolised 
 husband — the worshipped hero of the out- 
 wardly calm but intensely impassioned Mary 
 Cavendish — pleased himself in a congenial 
 occupation, with visions of prosperity and dis- 
 tinction yet to come. She would never leave 
 Corindah. It should be her home and that of 
 his child after her. Her resolution formed, 
 she proceeded to put in practice her ideas. 
 She retained the overseer — a steady, experi- 
 enced man, in whom her husband had had 
 confidence. She went over the books and
 
 20 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 accounts, thus satisfying herself of the sol- 
 vency and exact position of the estate. This 
 done, she explained to him that she intended 
 to retain the establishment in her own hands, 
 and trusted, with his assistance, to make it 
 progressive and remunerative. 
 
 ' Captain Devereux, my poor husband,' 
 she said, ' had the greatest confidence in you. 
 It is my intention to live here — in this place 
 which he loved and imj^roved so much—as 
 long as there is sufficient for me and my baby 
 to live on. I shall trust to you, Mr. Gate- 
 ward, to do for me exactly as you would 
 have done for him.' Here the steady voice 
 trembled, and the tears that would not be 
 suppressed llowed fast. 
 
 ' I will do that and more, Mrs. Devereux,' 
 said the plain, blunt bushman. ' Corindah is 
 the best station on the river, and il the seasons 
 hold middling fair, it will k(;ep iloublc the 
 stock it has on now in a few years. You 
 leave it to me, ma'am ; 111 be: i)ound the run 
 will fuid a home and a snug bank account for 
 you and missit; lor many a year to come." 
 
 I)etween Mr. Ciatrward and Corindah 
 I'lains, 'the best run on this side of Minga-
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 21 
 
 dee,' as the men said, the promise had been 
 kept. The years had been favourable on the 
 average. When the dire distress of drought 
 came there had been a reserve of pasture 
 which had sufficed to tide over the season 
 of adversity. Besides this, Corindah was 
 decidedly a 'lucky run,' a favoured 'bit of 
 country.' When all the land was sore 
 stricken with grass and water famines, it had 
 springs which never ran dry ; ' storms ' too 
 fell above Corindah ; also strayed water- 
 spouts, while all around was dry as Gideon's 
 fleece. In the two decades which were 
 coming to an end when Pollie Devereux had 
 reached womanhood, the rigid economy and 
 unwavering prudence with which the property 
 had been managed had borne fruit. The 
 credit balance at the bank had swelled notice- 
 ably during the later and more fortunate 
 years. And Mrs. Devereux was known 
 to be one of the wealthiest pastoral pro- 
 prietors in a district where the extensive 
 run -holders were gradually accumulating 
 immense freeholds and colossal fortunes. 
 A temporary check had taken place during 
 the last most unfortunate season. No rain
 
 22 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 had fallen for nearly a year. The loss ot 
 stock on all sides had been terrific, well-ni^j^h 
 unprecedented. Mrs. Devereu.x, rather over- 
 prudent and averse to expenditure (as are 
 women mostly, from Queen Elizabeth down- 
 wards, when they have the uncontrolled 
 management of affairs), had felt keenly the 
 drawbacks and disasters of the period. 
 
 ' I wonder if we shall get our letters to- 
 morrow, mother,' said Pollie Devereux to that 
 lady, as they sat at breakfast at Corindah on 
 one clear, brio-ht autumnal morninnr. ' ThinQfs 
 do really happen if you wait long enough.' 
 
 ' What is going to happen ? ' asked the 
 elder lady dreamily, as if hardly aroused from 
 a previous train of disturbing thoughts. ' We 
 are all going to be ruined, or nearly so, if the 
 winter proves dry. Mr. Gateward says the 
 cattle never looked so wretched for years, and 
 the poor sheep are beginning to die already.' 
 
 'Mr. (iateward is a raxcn tor croak i n< >" : 
 not thai I ever saw one, but ii sounds 
 well,' repli(,'d the girl. ' llf has no imagina- 
 tion. Why didn't he sentl the sheep away to 
 the inoiiiuains before they got so weak, as 
 Mr. Charteris and Mr. .Alherslone did.'* It
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 23 
 
 will be all his fault if they die, besides the 
 shocking cruelty of slow starvation.' 
 
 ' He is a conscientious, hard-working, 
 worthy man,' said Mrs- Devereux. 'We 
 should find it difficult to replace him. Besides, 
 travelling sheep is most expensive. You are 
 too impatient, my dear. We may have rain 
 yet, you know,' 
 
 ' I wish I had been a boy, mother,' replied 
 the unconvinced damsel, drumming her fingers 
 on the table as she looked wistfully through 
 the open casement, festooned by a great trail- 
 ing climber, to where the dim blue of a 
 distant mountain range broke the monotony 
 of the plain, ' It seems to me that none of 
 the men we know have energy or enterprise 
 enough to go beyond the dull round of 
 routine in which they have been reared. 
 Sheep ;and cattle, cattle and sheep, with 
 a little turf talk for variation. They smoke 
 all day, because they can't talk, and never 
 think. Surely new countries were not dis- 
 covered or the world's battles fought by 
 people like those I see. I think I should 
 have been different, mother, don't you ? ' 
 
 ' I am sure of that, my darling,' answered
 
 24 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 the mother with a sigh, patting the girl's 
 brieht abundant hair as she rose in her 
 eagerness and stood before her. ' You put 
 me in mind of your father when you look like 
 that. But you must never forget that the 
 world's exciting work is rarely allotted to 
 women. The laws of society are harsh, but 
 those of our sex that resist them are chiefly 
 unhappy, always worsted in the end. My 
 girl cannot help her eager, impatient heart, 
 but she will never despise her mother's 
 teaching, will she ^ ' 
 
 ' Never while life lasts,' said the girl 
 impetuously, throwing her arm round the 
 elder woman's neck, and burying her face in 
 her bosom with childlike abandon — * not 
 when she has an angel for a mother, like me ; 
 but I am .S(j tired and wearied out with the 
 terrible sameness of the lif(t we leail. Though 
 I have bc'-n h(T(! all my life. 1 seem to get 
 less and less able to bear il. I am afraid 
 1 am very wicked, mother, but surely 
 God never intended us lo live and die at 
 Corindah ? ' 
 
 ' l>ut you will be patient, darling?' said 
 the mother tenderly, as with every f(jnd
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 25 
 
 endearment she soothed the restless, un- 
 famihar spirit newly arisen from the hitherto 
 unruffled depths of the maiden's nature. 
 ' You know I had intended to take you to 
 Sydney for the summer months, if this 
 
 terrible season had not set in. But when ' 
 
 'When the rain comes, when the grass 
 grows — when the millennium of the pastoral 
 world arrives — we may hope to have a 
 glimpse of Paradise, as represented by 
 Sydney, the Botanical Gardens, and the 
 Queen's-birthday ball. That's what you 
 were going to say, mother darling, wasn't it ? 
 Poor old mother ! while you're fretting about 
 those troublesome sheep, poor things, that 
 always seem to be wanting water, or grass, 
 or rock-salt, which doesn't happen to be 
 procurable — here's your ungrateful, rebellious 
 child crying for the moon, to make matters 
 worse. I'm ashamed of myself; I deserve 
 to be whipped and sent to bed — not that I 
 ever was, you soft-hearted old mammy. 
 Besides, isn't this delightful unknown cousin. 
 Captain Devereux, coming some fine day ? 
 He's a whole chapter of romance in himself. 
 I declare I had forgotten all about him.'
 
 26 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 The foregoing conversation was hekl in 
 the morning room of the very comfortable 
 cottage — or one might say one of the cottages 
 — which, with a score of other buildings of 
 various sorts and sizes, heights and breadths, 
 acres and orders of architecture, went to make 
 up Corindah head station. Perhaps the build- 
 ing referred to had the highest pretension to 
 be called 'the house' — inasmuch as it was 
 larger, more ornate, and more closely envir- 
 oned with flower-beds, shrubs, and trailing, 
 many-coloured climbers, all of which bore 
 tokens of careful tendance — tlian any of the 
 others. As for the outward appearance of 
 the edifice, it was composed of solid sawn 
 timber, disposed outwardly in the form of 
 horizontal slabs, lined more carefully as to 
 the inner side ; the whole finished with gay, 
 fresh wall-papers and appropriate mouldings. 
 A broad, low verandah ran around the house. 
 A wide hall, of which both back and front 
 doors seemed to be permanently open, com- 
 pletely bisected the building. Wire stands, 
 upon which stood delicate pot-jjlants of every 
 shade of l<'af and llowcr. gave a greenhouse 
 air to this division. At a short dislancc, and
 
 I OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 27 
 
 situated within the enclosed garden, was a 
 smaller, older building of much the same form 
 and proportion. This was known as ' the 
 barrack,' and was delivered over to Mr. 
 Gateward and such bachelor guests as might 
 from time to time visit the station. This 
 arrangement, which often obtains in bush 
 residences, is found to be highly convenient 
 and satisfactory. In the sitting-room smoking 
 and desultory, even jovial conversation can 
 be carried on, together with the moderate 
 consumption of refreshments, around the fire, 
 after the ladies of the household have retired, 
 without disturbing any one. In summer the 
 verandah, littered with cane lounges and ham- 
 mocks, can be similarly used. In the event 
 of an early departure being necessary, the 
 man-cook of the junior establishment can be 
 relied on to provide breakfast at any reason- 
 able, or indeed unreasonable, hour. 
 
 On several accounts Corindah was looked 
 upon as a representative station, one of the 
 show places of the district. It was a stage 
 which was seldom missed by any of the 
 younger squatters who could find a con- 
 venient excuse for calling there, upon the
 
 28 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 journey either to or from the metropolis. It 
 was a large, prosperous, naturally favoured 
 tract of country, a considerable and increas- 
 ingly valuable property. It was managed 
 after a liberal, hospitable, and kindly fashion. 
 Mrs. Devereux, though most unobtrusive in 
 all her ways, permitted it to be known that 
 she did not approve of her friends passing 
 the door without calling ; and they were, 
 certainly, treated so well that there was no 
 great inducement to neglect that form of 
 respect. There was yet another reason why 
 few of the travellers along the north-western 
 road, friends, acquaintances, or even strangers, 
 passed by the hospitable gate of Corindah. 
 During these eventful years Mary Augusta, 
 generally spoken of as ' Pollie Devereux ' by 
 all who could claim anything bordering upon 
 the necessary grade- of intimacy, had grown 
 to be the handsomest girl within a hundred 
 miles of the secluded spot in which she had 
 been born and brought uj). 
 
 And she was certainly a maiden fair, of 
 mien and face that would have entranced 
 that sculptor of old whose half- divine 
 impress upon the marble will outlast how
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 
 
 many a changing fashion, how many a fleeting 
 age ! Tall, lithe, and vigorous, yet completed 
 as to hand and foot with an exquisite delicacy 
 that contrasted finely with the full moulding 
 of her tapering arms, her stately poise, her 
 rounded form, blue-eyed, tawny-haired, with 
 classic features and a regal air, she looked 
 like some virgin goddess of the olden myth- 
 ology, a wood-nymph strayed from Arcadian 
 forests ere earlier faiths erew dim and 
 ancient monarchs were discrowned.
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 The heiress of Corindah had been carefully 
 educated in a manner befitting her birth, as 
 also the position she was likely to occupy 
 in after-life. Governesses had been secured 
 for her of the highest qualifications, at the 
 most liberal salaries. Her talents for music 
 and drawing had been highly cultivated. 
 For the last three years of her educational 
 term she had resided in Sydney with a 
 relative, so that she mi^ht have the benefit 
 of masters and professors. She had profited 
 largely by instruction. She had read more 
 widely and methodically ih.iii most young 
 women. Well grounded in French and 
 Italian, she had a handy smattering of 
 German, such as would enable her, in days 
 to come, either to j)erfect herself in the 
 language by conversation or to dive more
 
 CHAP. II THE CROOKED STICK 31 
 
 deeply into the literature than in the care- 
 lessness of youth she thought necessary. 
 
 These things being matters of general 
 knowledge and common report in the district, 
 it was held as a proved fact by the wives 
 and daughters of her neighbours that Pollie 
 Devereux had got everything in the world 
 that she could possibly wish for. Agreed 
 also that, if anything, she was a great deal too 
 well off, having been petted and indulged in 
 every way since her babyhood. That she 
 ought to be only too thankful for these rare 
 advantages, whereas at times she was dis- 
 contented with her lot in life, and professed 
 her desire for change — which was a clear 
 indication that she was spoiled by over- 
 indulgence, and did not know what was for 
 her real good. That her mother, poor Mrs. 
 Devereux, ought to have been more strict 
 with her. These well-intentioned critics 
 were not so far astray on general principles. 
 They, however, omitted consideration of one 
 well-established fact, that amid the hosts of 
 ordinary human beings, evolved generation 
 after generation from but slightly differing 
 progenitors, and amenable chiefly to similar
 
 3= THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 social laws, stroncrlv marked varieties of the 
 
 race have from time to time arisen. These 
 
 phenomenal personages have differed from 
 
 their compeers in a ratio of divergence 
 
 altogether incomprehensible to the ordinary 
 
 intelligence. 
 
 Whence originating, the fact remains that 
 
 each generation of mankind is liable to be 
 
 enriched or confounded by the apparition 
 
 of individuals of abnormal force, beauty, or 
 
 intellect. Neither does it seem i)Ossil)lc for 
 
 the Attila or the Tamerlane, the Semiramis 
 
 or the Cleopatra ol the period to escape the 
 
 destiny that accompanies the birthright, 
 
 wheth(.'r it be empire or martyrdom, the 
 
 sovereignty of hearts or the disposal of 
 
 kingdoms. In spite of all a[)parent restraint 
 
 of circumstance, the unch.uigeable type, 
 
 dormant perhaps for centuries, reasserts its 
 
 ancestral attributes. 
 
 Such, 
 
 'Till ihc sun turns cold, 
 
 .\nd the stars grow old, 
 
 And the leaves of ihc Judgment-book unfold,' 
 
 will be the course of Nature. The; ' mute 
 inglorious Milton' is the pt)et's fiction, lie
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 33 
 
 is not mute, but bursts into song, which, if a 
 
 wild untutored melody, has the richness of 
 
 the warbling bird, the power of the storm, 
 
 the grandeur of heaven's own wind-harp. 
 
 The ' Cromwell guiltless of his country's 
 
 blood ' remains not in the stern world of facts 
 
 the patient hind, the brow-beaten servitor. 
 
 He leads armies and sways nations. To the 
 
 soldier of fortune, who smiles only on the 
 
 battle-field, and comprehends intuitively the 
 
 movements of battalions, book-knowledge is 
 
 superfluous and learning vain. He finds his 
 
 opportunity, or makes it. And the world of 
 
 his day knows him for its master. 
 
 And the queen of society, what of her ? 
 
 Like the poet, nascitur non fit, she is born 
 
 not manufactured. Doubtless, the jewel 
 
 may be heightened by the setting, but the 
 
 diamond glitters star-like in the rough. The 
 
 red gold-fire burns in the darksome mine. 
 
 Pollie Devereux, her admirers asserted, 
 
 would have ruled her inonde had she been 
 
 born a nursery-maid or an orange-girl. Her 
 
 beauty, her grace, her courage, her natural 
 
 savoir-faire, would have carried her high up 
 
 the giddy heights of social ladders in despite 
 
 D
 
 34 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 of all the drawbacks which ever delayed the 
 triunij)h of a heroine. 
 
 Still, the while we are indul^ino: in these 
 fliirhts of imacjination, our bush-bred maiden 
 is a calmly correct damsel, outwardly con- 
 ventionally arrayed, and but for a deep-seated 
 vein of latent ambition and an occasional 
 fire-tlash of brilliant unlikeness, undistinLTuish- 
 able from the donoiscllcs bicn-i'lcvdcs of 
 eighteen or twenty that are to work such 
 weal or woe with unsusi)icious mankind. In 
 a general way this young woman's unrest and 
 disapproval of her environments merely took 
 the form of a settled determination to e.xplorc 
 the wondrous capitals, the brilliant societies, 
 the glory and splendour of the Old World — 
 to roam through that fu'rv-land of which 
 from her very childhood she had eagerly 
 read the legends, dreametl the dreams, and 
 learni:d the languages. ' Imager - hearted 
 as a boy,' all-womanly as she was In her 
 chief attributes, she could not slake the 
 thirst f(jr change, travel, and adventure, 
 even danger, with a draught less deep 
 than actual exj)erience. If she h.ul been 
 her fithcr's son instead ul his d.iughter,
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 35 
 
 the inborn feeling could hardly have been 
 stronger. 
 
 When she thought of leaving her mother, 
 in whom all the softer feelings of her heart 
 found their natural home and refuee, she 
 wept long and often. But still the passionate 
 desire to be a part of all of which she had 
 read and dreamed, to see with her eyes, to 
 hear with her ears, the sights and sounds of 
 far lands, grew with her growth and strength- 
 ened with her strength. As the months, the 
 years rolled on, it acquired the power of fate, 
 of a resistless destiny for good or evil ; of 
 a dread, unknown, controlling power, which 
 beckoned her with a shadowy hand, and exer- 
 cised a mysterious fascination. 
 
 That there are men so formed, so endowed 
 with natures apart from the common herd of 
 toilers and pleasure-seekers, no one doubts. 
 It is equally true that there are women set 
 apart by original birthright as clearly distinct 
 from the tame tribes of conventional captives. 
 But society, to strengthen its despotic rule, 
 chooses to ignore the fact, preferring rather 
 to coerce rebellion than to decorate distinc- 
 tion.
 
 36 THE CROOKED STICK 
 
 CIIAI', 
 
 The eventful chiys Icadiiiij: slowly, but all 
 too surely, towartls the trai^edy which is too 
 apt to follow the idyllic course of our early 
 years, fleeted by ; a too peaceful, undisturbed 
 l)eriod had arrived. Another morning broke 
 clear and bright, as free from cloud or wind, 
 mist or storm wrack, in that land of too 
 changeless summer, as if winter had been 
 banished to another hemisphere. 
 
 'Oh dear!' (\\claimed Pollie, as springing 
 from her bed she ran lightly to the open 
 window, and drawing up the green jalousies 
 gazed wistfully at the red golden shield of the 
 day-god slowly uprearing its wondrous splen- 
 dour above the pearl-hued sky-line, while far 
 and near the great plain-ocean lay in dim 
 repose, soundless, unmarked by motion or 
 shadow. * ;\h me, how tired I am of the 
 sight of the sun ! Will it never rain again ? 
 1 low long are we to endure this endless calm ? 
 this bright, dismal, destructive weather } I 
 never realised how criu 1 the sun could be 
 before. As a chikl I was .so ft)nd of him, 
 too, the king of light and warmth, of joy and 
 gladness. Hut that is only in green-grass 
 countries. Ilere he is a pitiless tyrant.
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION yj 
 
 How I should delight in Europe to be sure, 
 with ever- changing cloud and mist, even 
 storm ! I am awear}/-, aweary. I have half 
 a mind to ride out and meet the coach at Pine 
 Ridge — I feel too impatient to sit in the house 
 all day. What a time I have been standing 
 here talking or thinking all this nonsense! 
 I wish I could help thinking sometimes, but 
 I cant if I try ever so hard. Mother says 
 I ought to employ myself more ; so I do, till 
 
 feel half dead sometimes. Then I get a 
 lazy fit, and the thinking, and restlessness, 
 and discontent come back as bad as ever. 
 Heigho ! I suppose I must go and dress now. 
 There's no fear of catching cold at any rate. 
 Now I wonder if Wanderer was brought in 
 from Myall Creek ? ' 
 
 Acting upon this sensible resolution, and 
 apparendy much interested in the momentous 
 question of her favourite hackney having been 
 driven in from a distant enclosure, failure of 
 which would have doomed her to inaction, 
 Pollie's light form might have been seen 
 threading the garden paths ; after which she 
 even ventured as far as the great range of 
 stabling near the corner of the other farm
 
 38 THE CROOKED STICK ' chap. 
 
 buildings. Here she encountered the over- 
 seer, Mr. Gateward. when, IioIcHul; up the 
 skirts of her dress so as to avoid contact with 
 the somewhat miscellaneous dust which lay 
 deeply over the enclosure, she thus addressed 
 him — 
 
 'Good-morning, Mr. Gateward! Do you 
 think ii will ever rain an^ain } Never mind 
 answering that (jucstion. l\.ussell himself 
 knows no more than we do, I believe. What 
 1 nally want to know is, did they bring 
 Wanderer in from the Myall Creek .■^ because 
 I ))iHst ride him to-dav.' 
 
 ' \'es. .Miss Pollie, the old horse came in. 
 I told them not to leave him bc:hind on any 
 account. (here's no knowing what may 
 happen in a dry year. \ <ry well he looks 
 too, considering. \'()u'll Imtl him in his box. 
 We'll .soon have him fit enough. 1 Its worth 
 feeding if ever a horse was, though chaffs as 
 dear as white sugar.' 
 
 ' 1 should think h(; was, the dear old fellow. 
 I knew you'd look after him, and I wasn't 
 mistaken, was I ? 1 ( an always depend on 
 you.' 
 
 'You'll never want a horse, or an\lhing
 
 11 OR POLLIE'S PROBA TIOM 39 
 
 else you fancy, Miss Pollie, while I'm on 
 Corindah,' said the veteran bushman, looking 
 tenderly at the girl. ' What a little thing you 
 was, too, when I first know'd you ; and what 
 a grand girl you've grow'd into! I hope you'll 
 be as happy as you deserve. You've a many 
 friends, but none of 'em all will do more for 
 you than poor old Joe Gate ward, 'cept it 
 might be Mr. Atherstone. That's what I'd 
 like to see, miss ' 
 
 ' Never mind Mr. Atherstone ; you're all 
 so good to me,' said the girl, blushing, as she 
 took the hard, brown hand in hers and pressed 
 it warmly in her slender palm. ' I feel quite 
 wicked whenever I feel discontented. I 
 ought to be the happiest girl in Australia. 
 Perhaps I shall be when I'm older and wiser. 
 And now I must run in. I want to put fresh 
 flowers on the breakfast-table ; but I must 
 first go and say good-morning to dear old 
 Wanderer.' 
 
 She dashed off to the loose box, and open- 
 ing the door, gazed with sparkling eyes at 
 the good horse that stood there munching 
 his morning meal of chaff and maize with an 
 appetite sharpened by weeks of abstinence
 
 40 THE CROOKED STICK ciiai-. 
 
 from anythinir more appetising than extremely 
 dry grass and attenuated salt-hush. 
 
 ' Oh, you darling old pet ! ' she cried, as 
 she walked up to his shoulder, passing her 
 taper fingers over his velvety face and smooth 
 neck, silken-skinned and delicate of touch 
 even after the trials of so hard a season. 
 * And your dear old legs look as clean as 
 ever! Was it starved and ill-treated in that 
 nasty bare paddock ? Never mind, there's a 
 load of corn come up. 1 know wh(^'ll have 
 his share now, however the rest may come 
 off. Now go on with your breakfast, sir, for 
 1 must get mine, and we'll have a lovely gallop 
 after lunch.' 
 
 The grantl old hackney, nearly thorough- 
 bred, and showing high caste in every point, 
 looked at the sj)eak(.*r with his mild, intelligent 
 eyes, and then waving his head to antl fro, as 
 was his wont when at all e.xcited, betook 
 himself once more to his corn. 
 
 The day wort: on slowly, wearily, with a 
 dragging, halting march, as it seemed to the 
 impatient maiden. 'I"h<- sun rose high in the 
 hard blue sky, ami glared, as was his wont, 
 upon the limitless pastures, dry and adust,
 
 11 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 41 
 
 the pale-hued, melancholy copses, the fast- 
 falling river, the forgotten creeks. The birds 
 were silent ; even the flies held truce in the 
 darkened rooms — there was a death -like 
 absence of sound or motion. Hot, breeze- 
 less, unutterably lifeless, and for all less 
 vigorous natures relaxing and depressing, was 
 the atmosphere. To this girl, however, had 
 come by inheritance, under the mysterious 
 laws of heredity, a type of quenchless energy, 
 a form combining the old Greek attributes of 
 graceful strength and divinely dowered in- 
 tellect, impervious alike, as were her anti- 
 types, to sun and shade, to fatigue or privation, 
 to climatic influence or untoward circumstance. 
 ' Mother,' she said, after tossing about 
 from sofa to chair, from carpet to footstool, 
 the while the elder woman sat patiently sew- 
 ing as if the family fortunes depended upon 
 the due adjustment of 
 
 Seam and gusset and band, 
 Band and gusset and seam, 
 
 ' I must go and put on my riding-habit. I 
 shall die here, I'm certain, if I stay indoors 
 much longer. 1 feel apoplexy coming on, or
 
 42 liili CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 heart disease, lin sure. Besides, there is a 
 l)reezc always outside, or we can make one, 
 Wanderer and I. on the plain.' 
 
 ' My darling, it's surely too hui lo go out 
 yet,' pleaded the mother. 
 
 ' It's twice as hot indoors,' retorted the 
 
 wilful damsel, rising. ' 111 ride as far as the 
 
 Mogil Mogil clum[) ; you can send little 
 
 Tarpot after me as soon as he gets the cows 
 
 in. But a galloj) 1 must have.' 
 
 The sun was declining as the girl rode out 
 (jf the paddock gates, but no hint uf coolness 
 had as yet betokened the coming eve. The 
 homestead was still ami solitary of aspect, as 
 a Me.xican hacienda at the hour of the siesta, 
 but for a different reason. lloi and weari- 
 some as had been the day, every man about 
 ihc [>lace had been hard at work in his own 
 pro[KT department, and had been so occupied 
 since sunrise, 
 
 111 Australia, however scorching the day, 
 how apparently endless and desolating the 
 sunmicr, no man, being of I'ritish biiili or 
 extraction, thinks of inlcrmilting his ilaily 
 work from sunrise to ni'jhlfall, except durin<'- 
 the ordinary hours allotletl l(j meals.
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 43 
 
 So the overseer was away on his never- 
 ending round of inspection of stock — ' out on 
 the run,' as the phrase is — to return at, or 
 perhaps long after, nightfall. The boundary 
 riders were each and all on their different 
 beats — some at the wells ; others at the now 
 treacherous and daily more dangerous quag- 
 mires surrounding the watering-places, from 
 which it was their duty to extricate the feeble 
 sheep. No one was at home but a small 
 native boy named Tarpot, with whose assist- 
 ance Pollie managed to saddle her loved steed. 
 Leaving injunctions with him to follow her as 
 soon as he should have brought up the cows, 
 she turned her horse's head to the broad plain ; 
 and as he snuffed up the fresh dry air and 
 bounded forward in a stretching gallop along 
 the level sandy track, the heart of the rider 
 swelled within her, and she wished it was not 
 unfeminine to shout aloud like the boy stock- 
 riders who occasionally favoured the musters 
 of Corindah with their company. 
 
 The well-bred animal which she rode was 
 fully inclined to sympathise with his mistress's 
 exhilaration. Tossing his head and opening 
 his nostrils, Wanderer dashed forward along
 
 44 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 the far-strctchinqf level road, just sufficiently 
 yielding to be the most perfect track a free 
 horse could tread at speed, as if he were 
 anxious to run a race with the fabled coursers 
 of lliat sun now slowly trailing blood -red 
 banners and purple raiment towards his 
 western couch. Mile after mile was passed 
 in a species of ecstatic eagerness, which for 
 steed and rider seemed to know no abate- 
 Fiient. The homestead faded far behind 
 them, and still nothing met the view but the 
 endless grey plain; the mirage - encircled 
 lines of slender woodland opening out north 
 and south, each ihe exact counterpart of the 
 other. An ever-widening, apparently illimit- 
 able- wasl(^ a slowly retreating sun, a sky 
 hopeless in unchanging, pitiless splendour of 
 hue, looking down upon a despairing world 
 of dying creatures. 
 
 * The Mogil Mogil clump is a short ten 
 miles,' sh(.' said, as she reincrd her impatient 
 steed ami compelled him to walk. ' 1 mustn't 
 send along the poor old fillow so fast ; he's 
 nol(juilc in form yet. I shall be there bdore 
 the coach passes, and then have plenty of 
 time to ride home in the cool. What a
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 45 
 
 blessed relief this is from that choking 
 atmosphere indoors ! ' 
 
 Another half- hour and the clump is 
 reached. Still no sign of the stage-coach 
 visible, as it should be for a mile or two, 
 even more on that billiard table of a plain. 
 The girl's impatient spirit chafed at the un- 
 looked for delay. As she gazed upon the 
 red sun, the far-seen crimson streamers, the 
 endless, voiceless plain, the spirit of rebellion 
 was again roused within her. She sat upon 
 her horse and looked wistfully, wearily over 
 the arid drought-stricken levels. She marked 
 the sand pillars, whirling and eddying in 
 the distance. They seemed to her fanciful 
 imagination the embodied spirits of the 
 waste — the evil genii of the Eastern tale, 
 which might at any time, unfolding, disclose 
 an Afreet or a Ghoul. The thought of long 
 years to be spent amid these vast solitudes 
 seemed to her hateful — doubly unendurable. 
 Before her rose in imagination the dull 
 familiar round of all too well known duties, 
 occupations, tasks, and pleasures, or but 
 feeble, pulseless alternations from the mill- 
 horse track which people call duty.
 
 46 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' Was I born onlv for such a fate ? ' she 
 passionately exclaimed. 'Is it {)Ossil)le that 
 the great Creator of all things, the Lord and 
 Giver of Life, made this complex, eaq^er 
 nature of mine to wear itself out with aim- 
 less automatic movements, or frantic struggles 
 against the prison bars of fate? Oh! had 
 my father not been cut nif in his prime, in 
 what a different position we should have 
 been ! We could have afforded to travel in 
 Europe, to revel in the glories of art, science, 
 and literature, to look upon the theatres of 
 the great deeds of mankind — to live, in a 
 word. W c do not live in Corindah — we grow.' 
 
 Overcome by the emotions which the 
 enthusiasm of her nature had suffered tempor- 
 arily to overwhelm her ordinary intelligence, 
 shf! had not notic(!d that the sta^e-coach, 
 bringing its bi-weekly freight of letters, news- 
 papers, and passengers, had approached the 
 clump of wild orange trttes, on the edge of 
 which she had reined her steed. The sensi- 
 tive thorough-bred, more alive to transitory 
 impressions than his mistress, aroused by a 
 sudden crack of the driv(.-r's whij), sl.irted, 
 and as she drew the curb rein, rt.'ared.
 
 n OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 47 
 
 ' What a naughty Wanderer ! ' she ex- 
 claimed, as, slackening her rein, she leaned a 
 little forward, stroking her horse's glossy 
 neck, and soothing him with practised 
 address. At the same moment the four- 
 horse team swept past the spot, and revealed 
 the unwonted apparition to the gaze of the 
 passengers, male and female, who, from the 
 fixed attention they appeared to bestow upon 
 her, were much interested in the situation. 
 Apparently the young lady was not equally 
 gratified, inasmuch as she turned her horse's 
 head towards the distant line of timber which 
 marked the line of the homestead, and swept 
 across the plain like the daughter of a sheikh 
 of the Nejd. 
 
 ' What a handsome girl ! ' said a passenger 
 on the box-seat ; ' deuced fine horse too — good 
 across country, I should say. Not a bush- 
 ranger, I suppose, driver? They don't get 
 themselves up like that, eh } ' 
 
 'That's Miss Devereux of Corindah,' 
 answered the driver, in a hushed, respectful 
 accent, as who should say to the irreverent 
 querist in Britain, ' That's the squire's 
 daughter.' 'She came up here to see if
 
 48 THE CROOKED STICK ciiap. 
 
 the coach was coining ; we're past our time, 
 nearly halt all hour. Got thinking. I suppose, 
 and didn't know we was so close. I cracked 
 my whip just to let her know like.' 
 
 ' Ijut suppose her horse had thrown her.' 
 asked the inquiring stranger, ' what then ? ' 
 
 ' ^^^SE^"^' your pardon, sir, there's mighty 
 few horses that can do that — not in these 
 parts anyway. She can ride anything that 
 you can lilt her on ; and she's as kind- 
 hearted and well respected a young lady 
 as ever touched bridle-rein.' 
 
 Now ever since Corindah had been ' taken 
 up ' in the good okl days when t)Ccupation 
 with stock and the payment of £\o per 
 annum as license fee were tlu! only oh\\- 
 gatory conditions encumbering the sovereign 
 right to use, say, half a million acres of 
 pastoral land, the adjoining ' run ' of Maroobil 
 and its proprietors had been associated in 
 men's minds among the lloating population of 
 the district. 
 
 Both had been ' taken up.' or legally 
 occupied, the same year. 'Ww. homesteads 
 were at no great distanct: from (;ach other, 
 so placed with the view to being mutually
 
 n OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 49 
 
 handy in case of a sudden call to arms when 
 the blacks were 'bad.' More than once on 
 either side the ' fiery cross ' had been sent 
 forth, when every available horse and man, 
 gun and pistol, of the summoned station had 
 been furnished. 
 
 Old Mr. Atherstone, a Border English- 
 man, had died soon after Brian Devereux, 
 leaving his son Harold, then a grave boy of 
 twelve, precociously wise and practical as to 
 the management of stock, and a great favourite 
 with Pollie, then a tiny fairy of three years 
 old, who used to throw up her hands and 
 shout for joy when Harold's pony came gallop- 
 ing up to the garden gate. He had watched 
 the child grow into a tall slip of a girl, with 
 masses of bright hair, never very neatly 
 braided. He had seen the unformed eirl 
 ripen into a beautiful maiden, an enchanting 
 mixture to his eye of much of the old daring, 
 wilful nature mingled with a sweet womanly 
 consciousness inexpressibly attractive. He 
 could hardly recollect the time when he had 
 not been in love with Pollie Devereux. And 
 now, in these latter years, he told himself 
 that there was but one woman in the 
 
 E
 
 >o 
 
 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 world for him nor could it ever be other- 
 wise. 
 
 Men varied much in their ilispositions. 
 He knew that by observation and experience. 
 There was Bob Liverstone, whose heart (as 
 he himself repeatedly averred) was broken 
 Ijeyond recovery, his prospects of happiness 
 eternally ruined, his life blasted, because of 
 the beautiful Miss Wharton, with her pale 
 face, raven hair, and haunlinL; eyes, who 
 wouldn't have him. 1 le broke his heart over 
 again shamelessly within six months, after 
 unsuccessful devotion to a blonde with eyes 
 like blue china ; and fmally married a lady 
 who bore not the least resemblance in mind, 
 body, or estate to either ol her predecessors 
 being i^lump. and merely pretty, but ex- 
 ceptionally well dowered. 
 
 Tlu-sc! antl similar divagations of the ardent 
 male adult Harold had seen — seen with 
 alarm and sur])ris(; primarily, then with 
 amused assent. bOr himself he could as little 
 conceive such o.scillations in his own tastes 
 and aflections as he could lancv himself 
 emulating the somersaults ol an acrobat or 
 the witticisms of a clown. No! thrice no!
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 51 
 
 For a man of his deep, dreamy, passionate, 
 perhaps originally melancholy, nature there 
 was but one sequel possible after the deliberate 
 choice of youth had been ratified by the calm 
 reason of manhood. If fate denied him this 
 happiness, all too perfect for this world — the 
 unearthly, unutterable bliss which her love 
 would confer — there should be no counterfeit 
 presentment, no mocking travesty of the 
 heart's lost illusions. He had rightly judged 
 that as yet the girl's feeling for him was that 
 of a pure and deep friendship, but of friend- 
 ship only. The love of a sister, unselfish, 
 sinless, seraphic, not the fiercer passion akin 
 to hate, despair, revenge in its inverted forces, 
 bearing along with it the choicest fruits that 
 mortal hands can cull, yet joined in unholy 
 joy, in perverted triumph to the groans of the 
 eternally lost, to the endless torment, the 
 dread despair of the prison vaults beneath. 
 
 Thus Harold Atherstone watched and 
 waited — awaited the perhaps fortunate turn 
 of events, the effect of the moral suasion 
 which he knew Mrs. Devereux gently exer- 
 cised. And she had told him that he was the 
 one man to whom in fullest trust and con-
 
 52 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 fidcncc she could bequeath her darling, were 
 she compelled to leave her. 
 
 'Hut vou must wait, Harold.' she said. 
 ' My child's nature is one neither to be con- 
 trolled nor easily satisfied, I can trace her 
 father's tameless soul in her. Poor Pollie ! 
 it's a thousand i)ities that she was not born a 
 boy, as she says herself How much easier 
 life would have been for her — and for me! 
 Here Mrs. Devereux siq^hed, 
 
 'All very well, my dear Mrs. Devereu.x, 
 but in the meantime nature chose tt) mould 
 her in the form of a beautiful woman, so 
 sweet and lovely in my eyes that I have 
 never seen her ecjual, and indeed hardly 
 imagined such a creation. .Slic will pass 
 throuLrh the unsettled time of girlhood in 
 another year or two. and after that take pity 
 upon her faithful slave and worshi[)per. who 
 has adored her all his life and who will die in 
 the same faith.' 
 
 'That is the worst feature in \(>ur case, 
 my p(jor 1 larokl,' said Mrs. Devereu.x ; ' I am 
 as fond of you as il you were my own son, 
 and she loves you like a brother. \'ou have 
 seen too much of each other. Women's
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 53 
 
 fancies are caught by the unknown, the un- 
 famihar : we are all aHke. I wish I could 
 help you, or bend her to my wish like another 
 girl, for I know how happy she would be. 
 But she cannot be guided in the disposition 
 of her affections.' 
 
 'And I should not wish it,' said the young 
 man, as his face grew hard. ' No, though I 
 should die of the loss of her.' 
 
 The contract time of the Wannonbah mail 
 was indulgent. The driver had no particular 
 reason to reach that somewhat prosaic and 
 monotoned village before the stated hour. 
 When Wanderer slackened speed a mile on 
 the hither side of the Corindah gate, it was 
 with some surprise that Pollie descried a 
 strange four-in-hand converging from another 
 point. Wanderer pricked up his ears, while 
 his rider looked eagerly across the plain with 
 the intense, far-searching gaze of a dweller in 
 the desert, as if she had power to read, even 
 at that distance, each sign and symbol of the 
 equipage. 
 
 ' Can't be a coach, surely,' she soliloquised. 
 'One mail is more than enough for all our
 
 54 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 wants in the letter and passenc^er way. Cobb 
 and Co. grumble at feeding their teams now, 
 poor things ! Who in the world is likely to 
 drive four horses in a season like this ? No 
 one but a lunatic, I should think. Such well- 
 bred ones too ! I can see the leaders tossing 
 their heads — a grey and a bay. I can't make 
 out the wheelers for the dust. No ! Yes ! 
 Now I know who it is. Oh, what fun ! I 
 beg his pardon. Of course it's Jack Charteris. 
 He said he was going to town. Poor Jack! 
 I wish I was "■oinq: with him. l>ut that wont 
 do. I should like to "^o and meet him, only 
 then he would make sure I was interested in 
 him. What a misfortune it is to be a girl ! 
 Now I must go in and dress for the evening, 
 and receive him properly, which means 
 unnaturally and artificially. Come along. 
 Wanderer ! ' 
 
 When .Mr. Jack Charteris swept artistic- 
 ally and accurately through the entrance gate 
 and drew up before the stable range with a 
 fi.xed e.xpectation that some one might see and 
 admire him, he was disappointed to observe 
 no one but Mr. C.ateward and a black bt)y. 
 1 i) them it was left to pcrlorm the ro/c of
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 55 
 
 spectators, audience, and sympathisers gener- 
 ally. 
 
 ' Why, Gateward, old man, what's the 
 meaning of this ? ' said the charioteer, sign- 
 ing to his own black urchin to jump down. 
 ' Are you and Tarpot all the men left 
 alive on Corindah ? Sad effects of a dry 
 season and overstocking, eh ? No rouse- 
 abouts, no boundary riders, no new chums, no 
 nobody ? Family gone away too? I'm not 
 going to ruin you in the forage line either. 
 Brought my own feed — plenty of corn and 
 chaff inside the drag. Don't intend to eat my 
 friends out of house and home this beastly 
 season.' 
 
 By this time Mr. Gateward and the black 
 boys had applied themselves with a will to 
 the unharnessing of the team, so that the 
 new-comer, who had uttered the preceding 
 remarks, exclamations, and inquiries in a loud, 
 cheerful, confident manner, threw down his 
 reins and descended from his seat without 
 more ado. 
 
 Here he stood with his hands in his 
 pockets, watching the taking out of his 
 horses, a well-bred, well-matched, and well-
 
 56 THE CROOKED STICK' chap. 
 
 conditioned team, never intermitting n flow 
 of badinacre and small-talk which seemed to 
 proceed from him without effort and fore- 
 thoucfht. 
 
 'Now then, Jerry, you put 'em that one 
 harness along a peg, two feller leader close 
 up, then two feller poler. Tie 'em up long a 
 post, that one yarraman, himeby get 'um cool, 
 baal gibit water, else that one die. You put 
 'em feed along a manger all ready. Mine 
 come out bimeby.' 
 
 ' I'll see after 'c:m, Mr. Charteris, don't 
 you bother yourself,' said the overseer good- 
 naturedly. ' Tarpot. you take 'em saddle-box 
 beloncr a mahincc inside barracks. 1 le'll 
 show you. sir, — you know where the bath- 
 room is. There's water then-, though we an" 
 pretty short.' 
 
 ' Deuced glad to hiar it. The dust's 
 inside my skin lik(; the wool b;il(s last 
 summer. Must be half an iiuh ol it some- 
 where!. I've been living in it all day. 
 I'rightful season ' lin just going down to file 
 my schedule — fact — unless my banker takes a 
 good-natured fit. Can't stand it much longer. 
 Ladies well? Mrs. 1 )evereu,\ and Mi.ss
 
 II OR FOLLIE'S PROBATION 57 
 
 Pollie ? Not got fever, or cholera, or con- 
 sumption this God-forsaken summer ? ' 
 
 The grave bushman smiled. ' I doubt we 
 shall all have to go up King Street wh^n yott 
 give in, Mr. Charteris ! You can work it 
 somehow or other, whoever goes under. 
 Besides, rain ain't far off; can't be now. 
 The ladies are all right, and a little cheering 
 up won't hurt 'em. Miss Pollie was out for a 
 gallop just before you came up.' 
 
 ' Then it was her I saw,' said the young 
 man petulantly. ' Knocked smoke out of 
 the team to catch her up, and missed her 
 after all.' 
 
 Mr. Jack Charteris, of Monda, was a young 
 squatter who lived about a hundred miles to 
 the west of Corindah, where he had a large 
 and valuable station, a good deal diminished 
 as to profits by the present untoward season. 
 He was of a sanguine, intrepid, rather 
 speculative disposition, having investments 
 in new country as well. People said he had 
 too many irons in the fire, and would 
 probably be ruined unless times changed. 
 But more observant critics asserted that 
 under careless speech and manner Jack
 
 58 THE CROOKED STICK ciiai-. 
 
 Chartcris masked a cool head and calculatinn^ 
 brain ; that he was not more likely to go 
 wroncr than his neighbours — in fact, less so, 
 being of uncommon energy and quite inex- 
 haustible resource. With any decent odds he 
 was a safe horse to back to land a big stake. 
 
 For the rest he was a good-looking, athletic, 
 cheery young fellow, in general fa\-()ur and 
 acceptation with ladies, having a great fund 
 of good spirits anil an unfailing supply of 
 conversation, that most of his feminine 
 acquaintances found agreeable, lie was not 
 easily daunted, and added the cjualities of 
 perseverance and a fixed belief in his per- 
 suasive powers to the list of his good (jualities. 
 
 Th<- past masters in the science of conquest 
 aver that the chief secret of fascination lies in 
 the power to amuse the too often vacant and 
 distraite feminine mind. Women suffer, it is 
 Jisscrted, more from dulness anil ennui than 
 from all ()lh(.r .source's, injuries anil disabilities 
 put together. Consider, then, at what an eiujr- 
 mous advantage he commences the siege who 
 is able to surprise, to interest, to entertain the 
 emotional, l.uighter loving garrison, .so often 
 in the doldrums, .so indifferently able to fill up
 
 II OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 59 
 
 the lingering hours. It is not the 'rare smile' 
 which lights up the features of the dark and 
 melancholy hero of the Byronic novelists 
 which is so irresistible. Much more danger- 
 ous is the jolly, nonsensical, low-comedy 
 person, in whose jokes the superior, the 
 gifted rival can see no wit, indeed but little 
 fun. Thackeray is true to life when he 
 makes Miss Fotheringay unbend to Foker's 
 harmless mirth, rewarding him with a make- 
 believe box on the ear, while Pen, the 
 sombre and dramatic, stands sulkily aloof. 
 
 This being an axiomatic truth, Mr. 
 Charteris should have had, to use his own 
 idiom, a considerable ' pull ' in commending 
 himself to the good graces of Miss Devereux, 
 being one of those people to whom women 
 always listened, and never without being 
 more or less amused. But though he would 
 hardly have sighed in vain at the feet of any 
 of the demoiselles of the day, rural or metro- 
 politan, he found this particular princess upon 
 whom he had perversely set his heart, 
 unapproachable within a certain clearly 
 defined limit. 
 
 Not that she did not like him, respect,
 
 6o THE CROOKED STICK chap, ii 
 
 admire, even in certain ways to the extent of 
 fighting his battles when absent, praising up 
 his good (jualities, deHcately advising him for 
 his good, laughing heartily at his good stories 
 and running lire of jests and audacious com- 
 pliments. That made it so hard to bear. 
 The very fearlessness and perfect can- 
 dour of her nature forbade him to hope 
 that any softer feeling lay underneath the 
 frankly expressed liking, and a natural dignity 
 which never quitted her restrained him from 
 urging his suit more decisively.
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 When Mr. Charteris had concluded his 
 ablutions, and sauntered into the verandah 
 after a careful toilette, he there encountered 
 Miss Devereux, who, having arrayed herself 
 in a light Indian muslin dress, gracefully 
 reclined upon one of the Cingalese couches. 
 His lonely life of late may have had some- 
 thing to do with it, but his ordinary well- 
 maintained equilibrium nearly failed him 
 before the resistless force of her charms. 
 
 Her eyes involuntarily brightened as she 
 partly raised herself from the couch and 
 held out her hand with unaffected welcome. 
 He took in at one rapturous glance her 
 slender yet wondrously moulded form, her 
 delicate hand, her rounded arm seen through 
 the diaphanous fabric, her massed and shin- 
 ing hair, her eloquent face.
 
 62 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' Oh, Lord ! ' he inwardly ejaculated, as 
 he afterwards confessed. ' I used to wonder 
 at fellows shootini^ themselves about a girl, 
 and all that, and laugh at the idea. But 
 I don't now. When I saw Pollie Devereux 
 that evening I could have done the 
 maddest thing in the world for the ghost 
 of a chance of winning her. .Xnd to win. 
 and wear, and lose her again, as happens 
 to a man here and there. Good heavens ' 
 why, It would make a fellow — make — me 
 — run amuck like a Malay, and kill \\ 
 town full of people before I was half 
 satisfied.' 
 
 iUit Mr. Charteris controlled those too 
 impetuous feelings, and forced himself to 
 remark, as he clasped her cool, soft hand 
 despairingly while she expressed her frank 
 pleasure at seeing him, 'Always delighted 
 to come to Corindah, Miss I )evereux, you 
 know that. 1 )i(ln'i I see you near the gate 
 as I drove up .■^ Thought you might have 
 come to meet me.' 
 
 'Well, so I Wf)ul(l.' the \oung lady 
 
 answeretl, with an air of ]irovoking candcnir, 
 
 only I had been out to see the coach and
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 63 
 
 find out if they'd brought our package from 
 England — presents that came by last mail, 
 — I was so hot and dusty, and thought it 
 was time to go and dress.' 
 
 ' And I wanted to see how Wanderer 
 looked, too,' quoth he reproachfully; 'you 
 know I always think he could win the 
 steeplechase at Bourke if you'd let me ride 
 him and wear your colours.' 
 
 ' I couldn't think of that for two reasons,' 
 replied the girl with decision. ' First of 
 all Wanderer might get hurt. Didn't you 
 see that poor Welcome, at Wannonbah races, 
 broke his leg and had to be shot ? I should 
 die, or go into a decline, if anything 
 happened to Wanderer. And then there's 
 another reason.' 
 
 'What's that?' inquired Mr. Charteris, 
 with less than his usual intrepidity. 
 
 'Why — a — you might get hurt, Mr. 
 Charteris, you see, and I can't afford to lose 
 an old friend that way.' 
 
 ' Oh, is that all } ' retorted Master Jack, 
 recovering his audacity ; ' well, you could 
 have me shot like Wanderer if I broke my 
 back or anything. 'Pon my soul ! it would
 
 64 77//: CA'OOA'/'JD STICK cuAi-. 
 
 come to just the same thini; if you ordered 
 me out to execution before the race.' 
 
 'Now, Mr. Charleris ! ' said PolHc, in a 
 steady, warning voice, ' you are disobeying 
 orders, you know. I shall hand you over 
 to mother, who has just come to say tea 
 is ready. Mother, he is talking most child- 
 ish nonsense about shooting himself 
 
 ' Hut I never talk anything else, do 1 
 .Mrs. 1 )evereux ? ' said the young gentleman, 
 running up to the kiiully matron with a look 
 of sincere affection. ' \'oiir mother's known 
 me all my life, Miss Devereux, and she 
 won't beli(.'ve any harm ot me. W ill you, 
 my dear madam } ' 
 
 ' 1 never lu:ar ol you (/oifii^' any foolish 
 thing, my dear jack.' said Mrs. Devereux 
 maternally ; ' and as long as that is the case 
 I sliall not be very angry at anything you 
 can say. We all know you mean no harm. 
 Don't we, Pollie .'* And now take me into 
 tea, and you may amus(.' us as much as ever 
 ytHj like. I'm rather luw myself on account 
 of the season.' 
 
 'No use tliinking about it,' rjuolh 
 Charleris, dashing gallantly into the po.sition
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 65 
 
 assigned to him. 'That's why I'm going 
 to Sydney to have a regular carnival, also 
 to be in time to get the wires to work 
 directly the drought breaks up. I can't 
 make it rain, now can I ? And I've a 
 regular tough, steady overseer, a sort of 
 first cousin to your Joe Gateward, with 
 twice as much sense and work in him as I 
 have. I mean to take it easy at the Club 
 till he wires me: "Drought over. Six 
 inches rain." Left the telegram all ready 
 written and pinned up over his desk. He's 
 nothing to do but fill in the number of inches 
 and sign it, and I shall know what to do. 
 That shows faith, doesn't it ? ' 
 
 ' But isn't it rather mad to go to Sydney 
 with a four-in-hand and spend money, when 
 you might be ruined, and all of us?' said 
 Pollie. 
 
 ' You are too prudent but don't look 
 ahead — like most women, my dear young 
 lady,' replied Jack, in the tone of experienced 
 wisdom. ' Nothinor like having a looical 
 mind, which, I flatter myself, I possess. I 
 always think the situation out, as thus : — If 
 we are all going to be ruined — the odds are
 
 66 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 against it, but still it's on the cards — why 
 not have a real first-class time of enjoyment 
 before the grand smash ? The trifling ex- 
 penditure of a good spree won't make any 
 appreciable difference in the universal bank- 
 ruptcy. \'ou grant me that, don't you ? 
 — Yes, thanks, I will lake some more wild 
 turkey. .Strange that one should have any 
 appetite this weather, isn't it."^' 
 
 * Not if one rides or drives all day and 
 half the night, as you do, Mr. Charteris,' said 
 Polli(;. ' I'^ven talking makes you thirsty, 
 doesn't it? r.ui ofo on with the lojjic' 
 
 ' Did you ever see me scowl, Miss Pollie ? 
 Beware of my ferocious mood. Now we're 
 agreed about this, that five hundred pounds, 
 more or less, makes no difference if you're 
 going to be ruined and lose fifty thousaiul.' 
 
 * I suppose not,' reluctant])- assented Mrs. 
 Devereu.x. 'Still it's mon(;y wasted.' 
 
 'Money wasted!' exclaimed Mr. Char- 
 teris. ' I'm surprised at you. Mrs. I )(;vereux. 
 Think of the delights of yachting in lluj 
 iiarboiir, ^'t'i the oc(!an iirceze afu:r this 
 vapour from the pit of of .Avcnuis. Knew 
 I should find it in time, 'ilu.ii the (.\ening
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 67 
 
 parties, the dinners at the Club, the races, 
 the lawn-tennis, the cricket matches ! The 
 English eleven are to be there. Why, I 
 haven't been down for six whole months. 
 Don't you think rational amusement worth 
 all the money you can pay for it ? Would 
 you think a couple of years' ramble on the 
 Continent too dearly bought if we were all 
 able to afford to go together ? ' 
 
 The girl's eyes began to glow at this. 
 * Oh mother ! ' she said, ' surely we shall be 
 able to go some day. Do you think this 
 horrid drought will stop the possibility of it 
 altogether.^ If I was sure of that I believe 
 I should drown myself — no, I couldn't do 
 that ; but I would burn myself in a bush fire. 
 That's a proper Australian notion of suicide. 
 Water's too scarce and expensive. Think of 
 the consequences if I spoiled a tank. I 
 should like to see Mr. Gateward's face.' 
 
 And here the wilful damsel, having at 
 first smiled at the alarmed expression of 
 her mother's countenance, abandoned her- 
 self to childish merriment at the ludicrous 
 idea of a drowned maiden in a bad season 
 intensifying the bitterness in the minds of
 
 68 THE CROOKED STICK cmai'. 
 
 economical pastoralists with the rellcction 
 that a flock of sheep would probably be 
 deprived thereby of that hi^h-priced luxury 
 in a dry country — a sufficiency of water. 
 
 Mr. Charteris laughed heartily for a few 
 minutes, and then, with sudden solemnity, 
 turned upon the young lady. ' You never 
 will be serious, you know. Why can't you 
 take pattern by me? Let us pursue our 
 argument. Pleasure being worth its price, 
 let us pay it cheerfully. I was reading 
 about the Three Hundred, those Greek 
 fellows you know, dressing their hair before 
 Thermopylae ; it gave me the idea, 1 tliink. 
 Mine's too short ' — here he rubbed his glossy 
 brown pate, canonically cropped. " lUit the 
 [)rinciple's the same, Miss Pollie, eh?' 
 
 ' What principle ? ' echoed Pollie. ' or want 
 of it, tlo you mean ? ' 
 
 ' The princijjle of dying game. Miss 
 Devereux,' returned Charteris, with a steady 
 eye and heroic po.sc. ' Surely you can 
 respect that? it all resolves itself into this. 
 Pm going to put down my ace. If the cards 
 go wrong 1 hav(! j^layed a dashing game. 
 If the season turns up trumps Pll make the
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 69 
 
 odd trick. You'll see who has the cream of 
 the store sheep -market when the drought 
 breaks ! ' 
 
 ' I admire bold play, and you have my 
 best wishes, Mr. Charteris. You've ex- 
 plained everything so clearly. Don't you 
 think if you read history a little more it 
 might lead you to still more brilliant 
 combinations ? ' 
 
 ' If you'd only encourage me a little,' 
 answered the young man, with a touch of 
 unusual humility. 
 
 ' Isn't that Jack Charteris ? ' said a man's 
 voice in the passage. ' I'll swear I heard 
 him talking about his ace. May I come in, 
 or is there a family council or anything ? ' 
 
 ' Come in, Harold, and don't be a goose,' 
 said Mrs. Devereux ; ' you are not going to 
 stand on ceremony here at this or any other 
 time.' 
 
 ' I've had a longish ride,' said the voice, 
 ' nothing to eat, half a sunstroke, I believe, 
 and my journey for my pains. I'm late for 
 tea besides, though I rode hard — takes one 
 so long to dress. If I was any one else I 
 believe I should be cross. I thiftk you'd
 
 70 
 
 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 better all leave me, and I'll join you in the ver- 
 andah when I've fed and found my temper.' 
 
 ' Nothing of the sort, mother ; you take 
 out Mr. Charteris and t^ive him good advice, 
 while I see after Mr. Atherstone, and recom- 
 mend him to begin with tht; wild turkey 
 while I get him some Ikikkulla. What's the 
 reason you've not been near us lately, sir?' 
 
 'rh(' new-comer was a very tall man, 
 though he did not at first sight give you the 
 idea of being much above the middle size, 
 but Mr. Charteris, who was by no means 
 sh(jrt, looked so when they stood together. 
 Then you saw that he was much above the 
 ordinary stature of mankind. His frame 
 was broad and muscular, and there was an 
 air of latent power about his bearing such 
 as gave the impression of j)rrf('ct confidence, 
 of physical or mental ccjuality to whatever 
 emergency might befall. 
 
 Mr. Chartc-ris lingered. m\(\ seemed to 
 cjucsiion the soundness of the arrangement 
 which divided him from \\\v enchantress and 
 rttduced him lo the placid enjoy meiu of Mrs. 
 Dcvercux's always sensible but not e.xciiing 
 conversation.
 
 in OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 71 
 
 ' Look here, Jack, I can't have you here 
 while I'm dining, you know,' persisted Mr. 
 Atherstone, with a calm decision. ' You've 
 such an energetic, highly organised nature, 
 you know, that calm people like me can't 
 sustain your electric currents. I perceive by 
 the appearance of that turkey that I'm about 
 to dine in comfort. Pollie has gone to bring 
 in a bottle of Bukkulla. " Put it to yourself 
 carefully," as Mr. Jaggers says, that I have 
 had no lunch. She will be quite as much as 
 I can bear during such a delicate period. So 
 out you go. Order him off, Mrs. Devereux, 
 if you've any pity for me.' 
 
 * Well, you are the coolest ruffian, I must 
 say,' quoth Mr. Charteris, as Pollie reappeared 
 bearing a dusty bottle of the cool and fragrant 
 Bukkulla. ' Mrs. Devereux, you spoil him. 
 It's very weak of you. You'll have people 
 talking.' 
 
 ' We don't mind what people say, do we, 
 Harold ? ' said the widow, as she watched 
 him carefully draw the cork of the bottle, 
 while Pollie sat near and placed a large hock 
 glass before him. ' Leave them alone for 
 half an hour. I'm sure, poor fellow, he's
 
 72 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 awfully tired and hunq^ry. I know where 
 he's been : ii was on an errand of mine ; 
 Mr. Gateward couldn't go. Surely you 
 can put up with my company for a little 
 while.' 
 
   I'oor Harold! ' grumbled Jack, 'he is to 
 be pitied indeed ! Mrs. Devereux, you know 
 I always say there's no one talks so charm- 
 ingly as you do, and I always say what I 
 mean. Now isn't there something I can do 
 for you in Sydney .•* ' 
 
 The symposium thus ostentatiously 
 heralded did not take (juite so long as might 
 have been e.xpected, and Pullie, making her 
 appearance in the drawing-room apparently 
 before its termination, went in the i)iano at 
 Mr. Charteris's instigation, and sang two or 
 three of his favourite songs in a fashion which 
 brought any lingering remnants of his passion 
 once more to the surface. .Mr. .Atherstone 
 was also good enough to express his approval 
 from the dining-room, the door of which was 
 open, and to recjuest iii.it she would reserve 
 her imjjortiition from the metropolis until he 
 came in. This exhortation was followed by 
 his personal apparition, when the laicsi com-
 
 in OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 73 
 
 position of Stephen Adams was selected by 
 him and duly executed. 
 
 Among the natural endowments lavished 
 upon this young creature was such a voice as 
 few women possess, few others adequately 
 develop or worthily employ. Rich, flexible, 
 with unusual compass, depth, and power, it 
 combined strangely mingled tones, which 
 carried with them smiles or tears, hate, 
 defiance, love and despair, the child's glee, 
 the woman's passion ; all were enwrapped in 
 this wondrous organ, prompt to appear w^hen 
 the magician touched her spirit with his 
 wand. Harold once said that in her ordinary 
 mood all the glories of vocal power seemed 
 imprisoned in her soul, like the tunes that 
 were frozen in the maofic horn. 
 
 Men were used to sit with heads bent 
 low, lest the faintest note might escape their 
 highly wrought senses. Grizzled war-worn 
 veterans had wept unrestrainedly as she sang 
 the simple ballads that recalled their youth. 
 Women even were deeply affected, and could 
 not find one word of delicatest depreciation 
 that would sound otherwise than sacri- 
 legious. This was one of her good nights.
 
 74 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 her amiable, well -behaved nights, Harold 
 said. So the men sat and smoked in the 
 verandah, with Mrs. Devereux near them ; 
 all in silence or low, murmuring converse, 
 while the stars burnt iirightly in the blue 
 eternity of the summer night — the season 
 itself in its unchanging brightness an emblem 
 of the endless procession of creation — while 
 the girl's melodious voice, now low and soft, 
 now wildly appealing, tender or strong, rose 
 and fell, or swelled and died away — * like 
 an angel's harp,' said Harold to her mother, as 
 she arose and came towards them ; 'and it is 
 specially fortunate lor us here,' he continued, 
 'as the season is turning us all into some- 
 thing like the other thing.' 
 
 ' 1 lush, Harold, my boy ; have faith in 
 God's providence!' replied Mrs, Devereux, 
 placing her liand on his. ' We have been 
 sorely tried at times, but that hope and 
 faith have never failed me.' 
 
 • W'liat a lovely, glorious, h(!avenly night! ' 
 said the girl, stepping out on the broad walk 
 which wound amid the* odorous orange-trees, 
 still kei)t in leaf and llower by profuse water- 
 ing. ' What a shame that one should have to
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 75 
 
 go to bed ! I feel too excited to sleep. 
 That is why you fortunate men smoke, I 
 suppose? It calms the excitable nervous 
 system, if you ever suffer in that way.' 
 
 'Ask Jack,' said Mr. Atherstone ; 'he is 
 more delicately organised. I suppose I like 
 smoking, because I do it a good deal. It is 
 a contemplative, reflective practice, possess- 
 ing at the same time a sedative effect. It 
 prevents intemperate cerebration. It arrests 
 the wheels of thought, which are otherwise 
 apt to go round and round when there's 
 nothing for them to do — mills with no corn 
 to grind.' 
 
 ' I never heard so many good reasons before 
 for what many people call a bad habit,' 
 said Pollie. ' However, I must say, con- 
 sidering the hard work you poor fellows 
 have to do at times, I think a man enjoying 
 his pipe after his day's work a dignified and 
 ennobling spectacle.' 
 
 ' Quite my idea, Miss Pollie,' said Jack. 
 ' I really thought my brain was giving way 
 once in a dry season. If I hadn't smoked, 
 should have had to fall back upon drinking. 
 Dreadful to think of, isn't it ? A mixture of
 
 76 THE CROOKED STICK chap 
 
 Latakia and X'^iroflnia I grot from a fellow 
 
 down from India on leave saved my life.' 
 
 ' I think we are all sufficiently soothed 
 
 and edified now to go to betl,' said Mrs, 
 
 Devereux, with mild, suggestive authority. 
 
 ' Dear me ! nearlv twelve o'clock too. The 
 
 days are so long now that it is ever so late 
 
 before dinner is finished and the evening 
 
 fairly begun.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 The parcel from England to which refer- 
 ence had been made on the occasion of 
 Pollie's excursion to Mogil Mogil clumjj had 
 arrived safely, and its contents been duly 
 admired, when a letter received by the next 
 mail - steamer rrmtained such exceptional 
 tidings that all other incidents became tame 
 and uninteresting. 
 
 This English letter i)roved to be from 
 Cai)tain Devereux's elder brf)th<r, with whom, 
 since th(' former's death. .Mrs. Devereux had 
 kept uj) a formal but regular correspondence. 
 The members kA her husband's family had 
 proved sympathetic in her hour of sorrow. 
 They had possibly been loix hcd Ijy the pas- 
 sionate grief of a relative whose letters after a
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 77 
 
 while commenced to exhibit so much sound 
 sense and proper feeling. From that time 
 the elders of the house of Devereux never 
 omitted befitting attention and friendly re- 
 cognition of the far-off, unknown kinswoman. 
 
 And now, it seems, they had despatched 
 Mr. Bertram Devereux, late lieutenant in 
 Her Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards, who, 
 from force of circumstances, reckless extrava- 
 gance and imprudence no doubt, but from no 
 improper conduct, had been compelled to 
 quit that crack corps and the brilliant society 
 he adorned. He had a small capital, how- 
 ever, several thousand pounds fortunately, 
 the bequest of an aunt. Having decided 
 upon a colonial career, he was anxious to 
 gain the requisite experience on the estate of 
 his cousin, Mrs. Brian Devereux. If she had 
 no objection, would she lay them all under a 
 deep obligation by receiving the young man 
 into her family, and by acting a mother's part 
 to one who was forced to quit home and 
 native land, perhaps for ever } ' 
 
 This last enclosure was from Lady Anne 
 Devereux, a lady in her own right, who, 
 much to the distaste of her friends and
 
 78 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 family, had been fascinated by the handsome 
 Colonel Dominick Daly Devereux, one of 
 the military celebrities of the day. In the 
 main the tone of the letter was proud and 
 cold ; but there were a few expressions which 
 so j)hiinly showed the mother's bruised heart, 
 that Mrs. Devereux could not resist the 
 appeal, 
 
 ' I fear he will be a troublesome inmate in 
 one sense or another,' she reflected. 'He is 
 hardly young enough to take kindly to station 
 life. Then again, how will my darling girl 
 be affected by his companionship ? But I 
 can enter into a mother's feelings. I cannot 
 refuse hospitality to my dear husband's 
 nephew. We must make the best of it. 
 He will not be worse, I suppose, than other 
 newly arrived young men. They are an 
 awful bothc^r during \\\v. first year. After 
 that they b(;com(; like other people. I hope 
 Mr. fjatewarcl will take to him.' 
 
 And now the stated time had been ovt-r- 
 passed. ihe Indus (P. ami (). Service) had 
 arriverl ; a telegram had be(Mi received ; and 
 Mr. iiertram Di-vereu.x was hourly expected 
 by the mail-coach. This fatc.'ful vehicle did
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 79 
 
 actually arrive rather late on the evening 
 specified, it is true, but without having, 
 according to Pollie's prophecies and reiter- 
 ated assertions, either broken down, upset, 
 or lost its way owing to the new driver 
 taking a back track which led into the 
 wilderness and ended at a lately finished 
 tank, far from the habitations of civilised 
 man. 
 
 As the coach swung round the corner of 
 the stock-yard and drew up underneath a 
 wide-branched white acacia which shaded a 
 large proportion of an inner enclosure, the 
 driver received a do2icettr which confirmed 
 him in the opinion which he had previously 
 entertained of his passenger being ' a perfect 
 gentleman.' He therefore busied himself 
 actively in unloading his portmanteau and 
 other effects, deposited the station mail-bag, 
 and without further loss of time took the 
 well-trodden road to the township. As the 
 eyes of his late fare rested mechanically 
 upon the fast-departing coach, he saw little 
 but a cloud of dust outlining every turn of 
 the road, amid which gleamed the five great 
 lamps, which finally diminished apparently
 
 So THE CROOKED STICK «^iiAi. 
 
 into star-frac^ments. as they traversed the 
 unendiiif^ plain which stretched northward 
 and northward ever. 
 
 A young man, whose Crimean shirt and 
 absence of necktie denoted to the traveller 
 the presumed abandon of bush life, advanced 
 from the door of a species of shop for general 
 merchandise, as it seemed to the stranger, 
 and dragging in the mail-bag, saluted him 
 courteously. ' Mr. Devereux, I tliink ^. 
 Please to come in.' 
 
 Meekly following his interlocutor through 
 the 'shop,' as he termed it, he found himself 
 in a smaller and more comfortable room. 
 Looking around at the somewhat 'cabin'd, 
 cribb'd, and conlin'd ' section, he answered, 
 ' My name is Devereux. I have; come to 
 remain. May 1 ask which ol these rooms is 
 to be allotted to me .'* ' 
 
 The storekeeper smiled. • \'()u didn't 
 think this was the house, sir .•' This is the 
 overseer's place, the barracks, as we call it in 
 tlu- bush. 11 \()n come alli-r ww I'll show 
 you the wa)-. \ oux luggage will be brought 
 to you if you will leave it here.' 
 
 'Ilie new-comer hatl not, in truth, troubled
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 8i 
 
 himself to consider what AustraHan dwellings 
 might resemble. He expected nothing. He 
 had made up his mind to the worst. There- 
 fore he would not have been in the least 
 surprised if his aunt or cousin had issued from 
 one of the small apartments which opened 
 out from the larger room ; had directed him 
 to occupy another ; had then and there placed 
 a kettle on the smouldering wood fire for the 
 purpose of providing him with refreshment 
 after his journey. 
 
 He therefore mechanically followed his 
 guide through a passage and along a 
 verandah until they reached a white gate 
 in a garden paling, when the young man in 
 the light raiment quitted him with this fare- 
 well precept — 
 
 ' The front entrance is between those two 
 large rose-bushes, and the first room to the 
 right of the hall. Mrs. Devereux or Miss 
 PoUie sure to be there.' 
 
 Proceeding along the path as he had been 
 directed, Bertram Devereux commenced to 
 experience a slight degree of surprise, even 
 curiosity. He was evidently in an sesthetic 
 region, short as had been the distance from
 
 82 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 the Sternest commonplace. The borders had 
 been carefully kept. Mowers were blooming 
 profusely. Oranges and limes shed a subtle 
 and powerful odour around. The stars 
 gleamed on a sheet of water which had 
 evidently helped to create this oasis in the 
 desert. The whispering leaves of the banana 
 brought back memories of tropic glories of 
 foliage. Turning between two vast cloth-of- 
 gold standards, the blooms of which met and 
 clustered about his head, he ascended a 
 flight of steps and fountl himself in a broad 
 verandah furnished with cane lounges and 
 hammocks. 
 
 The hanging lamp, which illumined a 
 wide and lofty hall, showed ferns of various 
 size and foliage, the delicate colouring of 
 which struck gratefully upon his aching and 
 dust-enfeebled eyes. A book, a few gathered 
 (lowers, lay upon a small table with some half- 
 executed ornamental needlework. All told 
 of recent feminine presence and occuj)ation. 
 
 As he lingered in observation oi these 
 novelties, a lady passed into the hall from a 
 side-door and advanced with a look of kindly 
 welcome.
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 83 
 
 ' You are Bertram Devereux, I know, and 
 oh ! though your hair and eyes are dark ' — 
 here she looked wistfully in his face — ' I can 
 see the family likeness to my darling husband. 
 You are the only one of his relations I have 
 seen. You may think how welcome you are 
 at Corindah. But it is a lonely life. I am 
 afraid you will miss the society you have been 
 accustomed to. My husband could never 
 have endured it but that he hoped to make a 
 fortune.' 
 
 'And so do I, Aunt Mary,' said the young 
 man, with a quiet smile. ' Had I not expected 
 great things I should never have come so far 
 from civilisation. But I should not talk so,' 
 he added, looking round. 'You seem to have 
 everything one has been used to, conserva- 
 tories and all.' 
 
 ' We have always tried to live in reason- 
 able comfort,' replied Mrs. Devereux. 'As 
 to the fortune, it is sometimes a long time in 
 coming. And a dry year like this delays it 
 still more. Now, having told you how glad 
 we are to see you, you will be anxious to be 
 shown your bedroom. In half an hour the 
 bell will ring for tea. We do not dine late,
 
 84 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 but I can promise you something substantial 
 after your journey.' 
 
 After a bath and a leisurely change of 
 toilette in the very well appointed bedroom 
 where he was installed — the flowers upon 
 the dressing and writing tables betokening 
 the expected guest — the pilgrim commenced 
 to take a more tolerant view of Australian 
 prospects than up to this period he had 
 deemed possible. 
 
 ' Quiet, yet dignified and refined woman, 
 my new aunt,' he soliloquised. ' Very far 
 from the bustlinc;^ farmer's wife I had expected. 
 Handsome in her youth — very — must have 
 been. My erratic cousin was by no means 
 such a fool as we all thought him. And her 
 fair daughter, too — how about her.'* A 
 beauty and an heiress, they all say. I never 
 bargained for that. .Si^cms as if there were 
 women whenever one goes — wherever I go, 
 at least. Just my luck.' 
 
 Mr. Devereux had scarc(;ly (Mumciated this 
 disheartening truism, witii a mildly resigned, 
 not to say (l(!sponding expression of counte- 
 nance, when the bill of which he had been 
 warned rang out a peal. Placing a rosebud of
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 85 
 
 Gloire de Dijon in his button-hole, he sought 
 the drawing-room, of which he found himself 
 the sole occupant. 
 
 He had observed that it was handsomely 
 furnished, in a style not noticeably different 
 from the fashion of the day, being not wholly 
 devoid of china, having a few rare plaques 
 and Moorish brass-ware — there was even a 
 dado, also a magnificent grand piano by 
 Erard — when two young people came through 
 one of the French windows which 'gave' into 
 the verandah. 
 
 ' I shall never agree with you, Harold,' the 
 girl was saying to her companion ; * not even 
 if we lived here for the next twenty years — 
 and I shall drown or otherwise make away 
 with myself in that case.' 
 
 'There are worse places than Corindah,' 
 replied a young man who followed her in. 
 'You may live to be convinced of the fact.' 
 
 ' I should hate any place,' retorted the girl, 
 in playful defiance, ' if I had to live there 
 all my life. I quite envy my cousin Mr. 
 Devereux, who has only just come. Every- 
 thing will be so nice and new to him. Cousin 
 Bertram,' she said, advancing and holding out
 
 86 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 her hand, ' I am charmed to welcome you. 
 Mother and I have been talking of no one 
 else for the last week. Let me introduce Mr. 
 Harold Atherstone, a near neighbour and a 
 great friend of ours. H(; will be able to give 
 you advice and information beyond all price.' 
 
 The two men bowed crravelv, as is the 
 manner of freshly acquainted Hritons, and 
 looked steadily, if not searchingly, into each 
 other's eyes. The new-comer spoke first. 
 
 • 1 (Mill tell you how pleased I am with 
 everything — and everybody,' he said, after a 
 slight pause ; 'so different from what 1 had 
 expected. I feel as if 1 IkuI found a home 
 and relations instead of leavin*' them for ever. 
 Most hai>py to meet Mr. Atherstone, and 
 hope to profit by his e.xperience and other 
 people's.' 
 
 For the few seconds that passed while 
 the new friend and the old one confronted 
 one another the young lady regarded them 
 keenly. Nor was her mind idle. 'As far 
 as appearance goes,' she ihouL^hi, ' 1 laroM 
 has certainly the best of it. Tall, well- 
 proportioned, with nice brown hair and 
 beard, and those honest grey eyes — what
 
 Ill 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 87 
 
 most girls would call a splendid fellow, and 
 so he is. Why am I not fonder of him ? 
 Bertram is certainly distinguished looking, 
 but he is only middle-sized and almost plain 
 — dark hair and eyes, rather good these last. 
 I feel disappointed ; I don't know why. He 
 smiles nicely — that is, he could if he took the 
 trouble. We must wait, I suppose, till his 
 character develops. I hate waiting. I see 
 mother coming. We had better go in to 
 tea.' 
 
 This last observation was the only one 
 audible. The other results of lightning-like 
 apprehension had only been flashed by 
 electric agencies from eye and heart to 
 brain — there registered, doubtless, for future 
 verification or erasure, as circumstances 
 might determine. Mrs. Devereux had 
 entered, Pollie offered her arm to her 
 cousin, whom she piloted to the dining-room, 
 leaving Mr. Atherstone to follow with her 
 mother. 
 
 It the young ^migrd'\\'dA been previously 
 astonished at the tone of the household 
 arrangements, he was even more surprised 
 as he surveyed the well -lighted room and
 
 88 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 marked with much inward satisfaction the 
 well-served repast, the complete and elegant 
 table appointments. The tea equipage at 
 the head of the table, over which Mrs. 
 Devereux presided, determined the character 
 of the repast ; but the general effect was that 
 of a sufficiently good dinner, with adjuncts 
 of light wine and the pale ale of Britain, 
 which neither of the young men declined. 
 Both ladies were becomingly dressed in 
 evening costume — Mrs. Devereux plainly 
 and unobtrusively, while her daughter had 
 donned for the occasion a sea-green mer- 
 maiden triumph of millinery, which subtly 
 suited the delicate tints of her complexion, 
 as also the silken masses of her abundant 
 hair. 
 
 In ilic trial of first iiiiroduriions. unless 
 the key-note be swiftly struck and more 
 than one of the talkers be enthusiastic, the 
 conversation is apt to languish, being chielly 
 tentative and fragmentary. Now I'ollic 
 was eagerly enthusiastic, but her burning 
 impatience on a score of subjects awoke no 
 responsive note in the incurious, undemon- 
 strative kinsman. lie was a^jparently ready
 
 Ill 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 89 
 
 to receive information about the customs of 
 a country and people to him so novel, but 
 did not press for it. 
 
 He studiously avoided committing himself 
 to opinions, and made but few assertions. 
 On the other hand, Harold Atherstone 
 declined to pose as a didactic or locally 
 well-informed personage, contenting himself 
 with remarking that those intending pastor- 
 alists who possessed common sense acquired 
 information for themselves ; to the other 
 division advice was useless and experience 
 vain. This cynical summing up of the 
 Great Australian Question merely caused 
 the stranger to raise his eyebrows, and Pollie 
 to pout and declare that Mr. Atherstone 
 was very disobliging and quite unlike himself 
 that evening. 
 
 Upon this it appeared to Mrs. Devereux 
 to interpose an apologetic observation con- 
 cerning the state of the country, including 
 the roads, live-stock, and pasturage ; to 
 which their guest made answer that he had 
 always believed Australia to be a dry and 
 parched region, and had supposed this to be 
 a normal state of matters.
 
 90 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' Oh ! we're not quite so bad always as 
 you see us now,' exclaimed Pollie, suppress- 
 ing a laugh. ' Are we, Harold .^ Vou would 
 hardly believe that these dusty plains are 
 covered with grass as high as a horse's head 
 in a good season, would you now ? ' 
 
 Mr. Devereux did 7iot believe it. lUit he 
 inclined his head politely and said that it 
 must present a very pleasing appearance. 
 
 ' Yes, indeed,' continued the girl. ' In the 
 old days the shepherds were provided with 
 horses, because the grass was so tall that 
 the sheep used to get lost. Men on foot 
 could not see them in it.' 
 
 The listener began to feel convinced that 
 the facts related were ajjproaching the 
 border of strange travel and adventure so 
 circumstantially described by one Lemuel 
 Gulliver, but he manfully wiihcld utterance 
 of the h('resy, merely remarking that they 
 would think tlial \ery strange in I'^nghunl. 
 
 ' I'm afraid you're cautious,' qiinth his fair 
 teacher, trying to frown. 'H there's any- 
 thing I despise, it's caution, lis your duty 
 as a newly arrived person to l)e wildly aston- 
 ished at anything, to make (luanlitics of
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 91 
 
 mistakes, and so gradually to learn the noble 
 and aristocratic profession of a squatter. If 
 you're going to be unnaturally rational, I 
 shall have no pleasure in teaching you.' 
 
 '\i yotc will undertake the task,' replied 
 the neophyte, with a sudden gleam in his 
 dark eyes which for an instant lighted up the 
 somewhat sombre countenance, * I will pro- 
 mise to commit all the errors you may think 
 necessary.' 
 
 ' As to that, we'll see,' answered the damsel, 
 with a fine affectation of carelessness. ' I 
 make no promises. We shall have plenty of 
 time — Oh, dear ! what quantities of it we do 
 waste here — to find out all one another's bad 
 qualities. Shall we not, Harold?' 
 
 ' I have never made any discoveries of the 
 sort. Miss Devereux,' said the young man; 
 ' I can't answer, of course, for the result of 
 your explorations.' 
 
 ' I couldn't find anything bad in you,' said 
 the girl eagerly, ' if I tried for a century. 
 That's the worst of it. You always put me 
 in the wrong. Doesn't he, mother? There's 
 no satisfaction in quarrelling with him.' 
 
 ' Why should you quarrel if it comes to
 
 92 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 that?' queried the matron, with a wistful 
 glance at her child. ' You only differ in 
 opinion occasionally, I observe.' 
 
 ' Why, because quarrelling is one of the 
 necessities — I should almost say luxuries — of 
 existence,' retorted the young lady. ' WHiat 
 would life be without it ? Think of the pleasure 
 of making it up. I should die if I didn't 
 quarrel with somebody now and then.' 
 
 'Or talk nonsense occasionally, as your 
 cousin has doubtless by this time observed,' 
 answered her mother. '1 think wc may 
 adjourn to the drawing-room.' 
 
 The drawing-room in this case meant the 
 verandah, in which luxurious retreat the little 
 party soon ensconced themselves, 
 
 ' Really,' remarked Devereux, as he lit a 
 cigar and abandoned himself to the inner 
 de[nhs of a Cingalese chair, ' it there was a 
 little muliun, I could huicy we were in the 
 Red Sea. Same sky, same stars, same mild 
 temperature, and tobacco. This is very 
 different from the slc:rn realities of colonial 
 life I had pictured to myself 
 
 ' We don't give ourselves out as industrial 
 martyrs,' remarked Atherstone placidly, ' but
 
 Ill OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 93 
 
 you will probably find out that bush life is 
 not all beer and skittles.' 
 
 'Hope not,' replied Devereux. 'That 
 would be too good to last, obviously. Still 
 I can gather that you have extenuating 
 circumstances. I certainly never expected 
 to spend my first evening like this.' 
 
 Atherstone made no answer, but apparently 
 permitted his pipe reverie to prevail. The 
 other man reclined as if somewhat fatigued, 
 and smoked his cigar, listening indolently to 
 the running conversational comment which 
 his cousin kept up, sometimes with him, 
 sometimes with Atherstone, whose answers 
 were chiefly monosyllabic. The girl's fresh 
 voice falling pleasantly upon his ear, with the 
 lulling effect of rhythmic melody or murmuring 
 stream, Mr. Bertram Devereux was led to 
 the conclusion, by his novel and interesting 
 experience, that an evening might be spent 
 pleasantly, even luxuriously, at this incredible 
 'distance from town,' as he himself would 
 have expressed it. 
 
 With this conviction, however, and the 
 termination of his cigar came a distinctly 
 soporific proclivity, so that, pleading fatigue
 
 94 THE CROOKED STICK chap, in 
 
 and declinini^ further refreshment, the new- 
 comer was lain to betake himself to bed, in 
 which blessed refuge from care and pain, 
 labour and sorrow, he shortly ceased to re- 
 volve the very comprehensive subject of 
 colonial experience.
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 On the morning after his arrival the visitor, 
 making his appearance at an early hour, had 
 a short conversation with Mr. Gateward, 
 whom he found at the horse-yard sending 
 out his men for the day, ' Of course I know 
 nothing of this sort of thing,' he said ; 'but 
 I have come here to learn, with a view to in- 
 vesting a few thousands I have in a property, 
 or station, as I think you call it. Now 
 understand clearly that I shall be glad to help 
 in the work of the place, in any way that I 
 am fitted for. I can ride and drive decently, 
 shoot, walk, keep accounts ; in a general way 
 do most things that other people can. Of 
 course I can't pick up the whole drill at once, 
 but I don't want you to spare me. I came 
 to Australia to work, and the sooner I learn 
 the better.'
 
 96 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' All right, sir,' replied the bronzed veteran, 
 ' I'll sec what I can do. If you ride about 
 with me every day, and keep your eyes open, 
 you'll pick up as much in six months as most 
 of the people know that own stations. It's 
 a bad year now, ami we're all in the doldrums, 
 as the sailors say. But it's not going to be 
 that way always. The wind'll change or the 
 rain'll come, and then we'll be able to show 
 you what Corindah looks like in a good 
 season.' 
 
 ' Then we understand each other. I'll take 
 my orders from you, but, of course, from no 
 one el.se — (' Not likely,' interjected Mr. Gate- 
 ward, looking at the steady eye and short, 
 proud ui)per li[j of the speaker) — 'and early 
 or late, wet or dry (if it ever is wet here), hot 
 or cold, you'll fmd me ready and willing. 
 Give me a couple of good hacks, and I'll soon 
 have an idea of how you carry on the war.' 
 
 ' I'm dashed sure you will, sir, and I shall 
 b(; j>roud to help a gentleman like you to a 
 knowlttdge of things, that's willing to learn, 
 and not too jjroud to take a hint.' 
 
 'Quite so. 1 suppose you remember my 
 cousin lirian .'* 1 was very young when he
 
 IV 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 97 
 
 left home, but I always heard that he was 
 a hard man to beat at anything he chose to 
 go in for.' 
 
 ' He was as fine a man as ever wore shoe- 
 leather,' said the overseer. ' Everybody re- 
 spected him in these parts, and he was that 
 jolly and kind In his ways, nobody could help 
 liking him. If he hadn't been cut off in his 
 prime by that infernal Doctor — the cattle- 
 duffing, horse-stealing hound — he'd have been 
 one of the richest men in the district this 
 very minute.' 
 
 'He was shot by a highway robber?' 
 inquired Devereux ; ' what you call a bush- 
 ranger in Australia, don't you 1 ' 
 
 ' Well, there are bushrangers and bush- 
 rangers,' said the overseer. ' This chap, 
 the Doctor, hadn't regularly took to the 
 bush, as one might say, though he was worse 
 than many as did. He belonged to a mob 
 of cattle-stealers that used to duff cattle in 
 the back country, and pass them over to 
 Queensland. Well, Mr. Tracknell, one of 
 the squatters in the back blocks, began to 
 run 'em pretty close, and put the police on 
 'em. They heard he was to be in the coach 
 
 H
 
 98 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 from Orange on a certain day, and made it 
 right to stick it up and give him a lesson.' 
 
 * What's sticking up ? ' 
 
 ' Well, sir, by what one hears and reads, 
 it is what used to be called " stopping " on 
 the Oueen's highway in England.' 
 
 • Then they had no grudge against Brian 
 Devereux ? ' 
 
 ' Not a bit in the world. He was known 
 far and wide as a free-handed gentleman. 
 Any one was welcome to stop at Corindah 
 in his time, and no poor man ever went 
 away hum^ry. The man the Doctor and Bill 
 Bond wanted wasn't in the coach as it 
 happened. Me'd got wind of it and cleared. 
 But they heard there was a gentleman with a 
 big beard going down the country, and made 
 sure it was him. When they came up and 
 saw their mistake, they'd have rode off again, 
 only the Captain was that hot-tempered 
 and angry at their stopping him, that he 
 fired on them, and nearly collared the lot. 
 They returned it, and rotle off as well as they 
 could, and never knew till days after that 
 they had hit him. 'ilicm as told me said 
 the Doctor was devilish sorry for it, and
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 99 
 
 that he was the last man in the district they'd 
 have hurt.' 
 
 ' What became of the Doctor, as you call 
 him?' 
 
 ' Well, sir, he's in the back country some- 
 where in Queensland yet, I believe. He 
 served a sentence for horse-stealinq- of seven 
 years ; but he's wanted again, and there's a 
 warrant out for him. He's a desperate man 
 now, and I wouldn't be sure he won't do 
 something that'll be talked about yet before 
 his end comes.' 
 
 ' It's to be hoped there'll be a rope 
 round his neck on that day,' said Bertram ; 
 ' scoundrels of that kind should be trapped 
 or poisoned like vermin.' 
 
 'Well, sir, the Doctor's no chop, but 
 there's worse than Bill Bond, if you'll believe 
 me. The only thing is, now he's hunted from 
 pillar to post so, and he ain't got half a 
 chance to repent if he wanted ever so much, 
 I'm afraid he'll do something out of the way 
 bad yet.' 
 
 ' • • •   
 
 The autumnal season, with calm sun- 
 gilded days, cool starlight, unclouded nights,
 
 lOO 
 
 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 and morninc^s fresh and exhilaratinc^, as if 
 newly ordered from Paradise, came gradually 
 to an end. Lovely, passing fair, as weather 
 in the abstract ; but dry, dry, always dry, and 
 as such lamentable and injurious. Then 
 winter made believe to arri\-e with the first 
 week in June. But how could it be winter, 
 Bertram thought, when the skies were still 
 cloudless and untroubled, the mid-day warm, 
 the plains dusty, the air soft, the; ri\er low ; 
 when the llowers in the garden bloomed and 
 budded as usual ; when no leaf fell from the 
 forest ; when, save the great acacias in the 
 backyard ^.wkS. the while cedars in the garden, 
 all the trees at Corindah were green and luU- 
 foliaofed ? The chief diff(Tence was that the 
 nights were longer, cooler. There were 
 sharp frosts from time to time ; and when 
 Bertram arose early in the morning, accord- 
 ing to his wont, all things were covered with 
 an icy mantle On one occasion, when he 
 met Mr. Gateward coming in from a long 
 night ride, his abinulant beanl was frozen 
 stiff as a stalactite. 
 
 The sheej) ilied faster than ever, at which 
 Bertram wondered much, I'ui diil not ask
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION loi 
 
 questions. ' Everything comes to him who 
 waits,' was one of his favourite proverbs. 
 
 ' If it had been always thus,' he told him- 
 self, 'so many evidences of capital and pros- 
 perity would not be here. A change will 
 come sometime, but I cannot hasten it by 
 ignorant questions. I shall learn all about 
 this extraordinary country in the course of 
 time.' 
 
 His theory was sound. But Mrs. Dever- 
 eux was neither so self - contained nor 
 philosophical. She complained and be- 
 moaned herself from time to time, as is the 
 way of women. At the evening meal, when 
 after the day's duties the two young people 
 and herself met with an affectation of social 
 enjoyment, she made many things plain to 
 the inquiring mind of Bertram Devereux, 
 silent and incurious as he seemed to be. 
 
 ' It had not always been thus. In the 
 old, happy days droughts had certainly oc- 
 curred, but with intervals of years between. 
 Now the seasons seemed to have changed. 
 The year before last was a drought, and 
 now — this was the most sore and terrible 
 grass famine she had ever remembered.
 
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 Their losses would be frightful, disastrous, 
 ruinous.' 
 
 ' Was it on the cards that she would be 
 actually ruined — lose all her property, that 
 is — if the season remained unchanged }' 
 
 ' Well, not absolutely. She could not 
 truthfully say that. ICven if all the sheep on 
 Corindah died, the whole fifty thousand, the 
 land and fences would remain. 15 ut twenty 
 or thirty thousand pounds would be an 
 immense sum to make up. The very thought 
 made her shudder. To think of the years it 
 had taken to make and save it! No doubt 
 she could get more sheep. Her credit, she 
 was thankful to say, was good enough for 
 that.' 
 
 'I i)clieve it's all Mr. Cialeward's fault, 
 said l'()lli(! impctuouslv. ' Why clid he 
 persuade you not to buy a station In the 
 mountains last year, where there's beautiful 
 green grass and running water in the driest 
 summer. That's wh.it is needed for the 
 poor sheep now. Antl all for a thousand 
 pounds.' 
 
 'A thousand pounds is a gn-at deal of 
 moiu-y,' said Mrs. l)ever(ii\. ' I b- iJiought
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 103 
 
 he could get some country cheaper, and in 
 the meantime it was snapped up. I have 
 been sorry for it ever since. But he meant 
 well, as he always does.' 
 
 ' I know that. He's as good an old 
 creature as ever lived, and devoted to you 
 and me, mother. I wouldn't say a word 
 against him for the world. But he's too 
 slow and cautious in matters like this, which 
 need decision. Think of all the poor weak 
 sheep, with their imploring eyes, that would 
 have been kept alive if we had sent twenty 
 or thirty thousand up to those lovely moun- 
 tains.' 
 
 ' I suppose it's too late now,' said Bertram. 
 ' Of course I know nothing as yet, but could 
 not some of them — ten thousand or so — be 
 taken away now ? ' 
 
 'That's where the misery is,' said Pollie. 
 ' The snow has fallen on the mountains. 
 Indeed, nearly all the sheep have come away. 
 Those thirty thousand of Mr. Haller's that 
 passed here last week, and gave you so 
 much trouble, had just come from there. 
 And how nice and strong they were, do you 
 remember ? Our poor things are so weak
 
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 that they couldn't travel it" \vc had ever so 
 much green grass to send them to.' 
 
 * It's Napoleon's Russian campaign over 
 again — only, that our country's too dry to 
 ■hold us, and his was too cold. And is there 
 no return from Elba?' 
 
 'When the rain comes, not before. It 
 may come soon, in a few months, this year, 
 next year, not at all. So we're in a pleasing 
 state of uncertainty, don't you think V 
 
 ' And you are not all sitting; in sackcloth 
 and ashes, or fasting, or making vows to the 
 saints, and what not ! This is a wonderful 
 country, and you are wonderful people, I 
 must say, to take matters so calmly.' 
 
 ' We know our country and the general 
 course of the .seasons,' said Mrs. Devereux. 
 ' In the long-run ihcy prove favourable, 
 though the exceptional years are hard. And 
 we strive to have f.iilh in God's providence, 
 believing that whoso trusts in Him will not 
 be left desolate.' 
 
 Letter from Miss M. A. Devereux to 
 Miss Clara Thornton, I'airoaks, lulgecliffe, 
 Sydney : —
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 105 
 
 My darling Clara — I hope you think of me 
 daily, nightly, at breakfast and lunch time ; also at 
 midnight, when you can look out of your bedroom 
 window, and see that lovely South Head beacon-light 
 and the star-showers gleaming on the wavelets of the 
 bay ; when you can inhale the strong sweet ocean 
 breath, and dream of far-away tropic isles and palm 
 groves, coral reefs, pirates too, and all the delightful 
 denizens of the world of romance. How you ought to 
 pity me, shut up in poor, dry, dusty Corindah ! — the 
 weather going from bad to worse; Mother and Mr. 
 Gateward looking more woebegone every day ; and the 
 poor sheep dying at such a rate that even as we sit in 
 the house odours are wafted towards us not exactly of 
 Araby the Blest. Bertie calls it ' bouquet de merino.' 
 
 Who is Bertie ? Did I not tell you before ? He is 
 the English cousin that has come to live with us and 
 learn how to make a fortune by keeping sheep in 
 Australia. ' What is he like ? ' of course you ask. Well, 
 he is Tiot a great many things. So he is not a hero of 
 romance, ready made for the consolation of your poor 
 friend in this famine year. He is not handsome, nor 
 tall, nor clever — that is, brilliantly so. Not a particular 
 admirer of his poor Australian cousin either. He is 
 very cool and undemonstrative ; lets you find out his 
 talents and strong points by degrees, accidentally, as it 
 were. If I were to describe him more accurately than 
 in any other w^ay that occurs to me, I should say he is 
 different from everybody else I have ever seen in this 
 colony — extremely well able to take care of himself 
 under all circumstances, and quite careless as to the 
 effect he produces.
 
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 He is very well educated — cultured. I might say ; 
 reads and speaks French and (icrman. So, as we have 
 absolutely nothing to do in the evenings, he reads with 
 me, and I get on a great deal faster than any of us did 
 at Miss W'atchtower's. Vou know I have always had a 
 passion for what is called ' seeing the world ' ; it seems 
 to be born in me, and I can recollect whtn I was quite 
 a little thing being far more interested in books of 
 travel than any other reading. I really believe that if 
 anything led to the station being sold, and we have any 
 money left after these frightful droughts, that I should 
 persuade mother to take me 'home,' as we Australians 
 always say, and then have a good, satisfactory, leisurely 
 prowl over Kuroi)e. Now, do you see what I am 
 coming to ? What is the use of seeing everything in 
 dumb show? 1 intend to work hard, very hard, at 
 languages now I have the chance. Then I shall be able 
 to enjoy life and instruct my mind fully when I do go 
 abroad. Abroad 1 Rome, Paris, I'lorcnce ! The idea 
 is too ecstatic altogether. I shall die if it is not realised. 
 I feel as if I should die of joy if it is. 
 
 I am writing at my little table in my bedroom. As 
 I look out the moonlight makes everything as clear as 
 day. There is a slight breeze, and I can actually sec 
 the dust as it rises on the plain, midwinter though it is 
 sujiposcd to be. I couldn't live here all my life, now 
 rould I ? Not for all the cattle and sheep in .Australia ! 
 I don't fee! inclined to go to bed. iJut I suppo.se I 
 must say goodnight to niv <!i arcst f'Jara, and remain 
 your too lonely friend, I'oi.i.iK.
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 107 
 
 After the first month or two of the excite- 
 ment caused by the arrival of a ' new chum ' 
 at Corindah on the experience ticket, as the 
 vernacular of the West Logan had it, much of 
 the mingled curiosity, doubt, or disapproval 
 with which the emigrant gentleman is usually 
 regarded in a distant provincial circle died 
 away. Of this last attribute of the neophyte 
 Mr. Devereux had incurred but little. 
 Studiously careful of speech, habitually 
 courteous in bearing, and wholly indifferent 
 to general opinion, but few men of those 
 with whom he was brought into contact 
 could find anything upon which to found 
 depreciatory opinion. The utmost that 
 professional carpers and cynics could aver 
 amounted merely to an inability to * make 
 him out,' as they phrased it, coupled with a 
 lurking suspicion that he ' thought himself a 
 deuced deal too good for the district of West 
 Logan and the people that belonged to it.' 
 
 ' Confound him ! ' said Bob Barker, who 
 posed as a leading society man and arbiter 
 elegantiariim, ' what right has he to come 
 here and look down on the lot of us as if we 
 were small farmers or country bumpkins .^
 
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 Suppose he was in the Ciuards, there's 
 nothing so \vontlcrrul about tliat. I know 
 his mother was a huK- in her own right, but 
 a gentleman is only a gentleman, and other 
 people have relatives in the aristocracy as 
 well as him.' 
 
 Here Hob twisted his moustache and 
 looked proudly around the company — 
 squatters, magistrates, and others, a select 
 party of whom, this being Court - day at 
 Wannonbah, had assembled in the parlour 
 of the principal hotel. 
 
 ' Are you quite sure that he does look 
 down, as you call it, upon all of us fellows, 
 Harker, or did you only think it was ten to 
 one he would ? ' said one of the assembled 
 magistrates, a native-born Australian, with 
 a slow, monotonous intonation whitli did 
 injustice to a shrewd intellect and keen sense 
 of humour. ' \'ou know we arc rather rusty, 
 some of us. We've been so long away from 
 ICngland.' Here the speaker bestowed a 
 wink (jf preternatural subtlety upon a good- 
 humoured looking, middle-ag(;d man u iiu 
 occuijied the chair at the: head of ihc table. 
 
 * Rusty be lianged ! ' said Mr. Darkir. ' I
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 109 
 
 could go home and take my position in society- 
 to-morrow as if I had never left. I don't 
 want any young military puppy to teach me 
 manners.' 
 
 'But what — did — he — do, Barker.-^' in- 
 quired the other squatter ; * or — what — did — 
 he — say — that — put — your — monkey — up ? ' 
 
 ' Well, of course he didn't do anything, 
 and as for saying, he was infernally polite ; 
 but somehow I knew by the quiet, simple 
 way he spoke what he was thinking of And 
 then, when we were playing whist, Atherstone 
 and I with Miss Devereux and the old lady, 
 he looked on until I asked if he was approved 
 of our play. He smiled faintly, and then 
 begged to know whether " out here " we were 
 always in the habit of leading from our longest 
 suits ? I could have kicked him on the spot.' 
 
 ' But — perhaps — he — only — wanted — to 
 — know,' pursued his tormentor, who now 
 appeared honestly desirous of extracting in- 
 formation. ' You're — so — very — smart — 
 Barker, yourself — you — know.' 
 
 * Oh, I dropped down to him,' said Barker. 
 'They've got some confounded new-fangled 
 way of calling for trumps in these London
 
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 clubs, and of course, like all luiglish people, 
 he thinks we never hear anvthinor or read 
 anything, and have never seen any society 
 men for a century but himself \\'hy, wasn't 
 General Burstall here the other day on leave 
 from India? Saw my brother at Simla just 
 " the week he left. 1 lowever, wait till this 
 season's over. That'll take some of the 
 starch out of him.' 
 
 ' I t'll — take — the — starch — out — of — some 
 — of — us — too,' replied the first s[)eaker, ' if 
 — it — doesn't — break — up — soon. I Ve — lost 
 — six — thousand — pounds — worth — of — 
 cattle — already. Everybody — says — your — 
 frontage — looks — frightful — Bar — Vvx — eh ? ' 
 
 The intense gravity and slow solemnity 
 with which this sudden assault w%'is performed 
 upon Mr. Barker, impugning the character of 
 his run, and by imi)licati()n his jirobable sol- 
 vency, ap[jeared so overpowcringly ludicrous 
 to the com[jany, that a diversion was effected 
 in favour of Mr. Barker's pasturage, who 
 therefore permitted the personal questions to 
 lap.se. 
 
 Ldtcr from li'Tiram I )evereu.\ to Captain 
 Goodwood, 6th Dragoon Guards ;
 
 £V OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 1 1 1 
 
 CoRiNDAH, New South Wales, Australia, 
 June 1877. 
 
 My dear Charlie — Partly on account of a weak 
 promise to let you and one or two more of the old set 
 into the secrets of my other-world life when I said good- 
 bye after that fatal Derby that proved such a smasher, 
 partly because one has such enormous quantities of spare 
 time in the desert here, I am going to produce a respect- 
 able despatch— may even go the length of becoming a 
 regular correspondent — while quartered here. 
 
 My jottings down, apart from any personal interest 
 which may yet survive the writer's departure, ought to 
 possess a certain value as tidings from a far country — 
 descriptions of a mode of life and state of society of 
 which no one I ever met in England had the faintest 
 idea. It is odd, too, for how many youngsters from 
 good families that we know have emigrated within the 
 last ten years ! And with one or two exceptions there 
 was no gleaning any information from their friends. 
 Either the fellows didn't write or had done indifferently, 
 and so the less said the better, or else the friends hardly 
 could tell whether they lived in Victoria, Western 
 Australia, New South Wales, or Tasmania, which is 
 much as if the whereabouts of a continental traveller 
 should be described as indifferently as in Belgium, Berlin, 
 Switzerland, or Sicily. There is a want of exactitude 
 about our countrymen, I must say, in all matters that do 
 not concern their own immediate interests, most painful 
 to persons gifted with a love of method — like you and 
 me, for instance. No wonder we English are always 
 caught unprepared when we go to war, and get laughed
 
 112 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 at all over Europe — till we begin to fight, that is. The 
 reaction sets in then. 
 
 However, rrcetwns a tios moutons — a strictly 
 appropriate tag, inasmuch as this lodge in the wilder- 
 ness is surrounded by enormous estates, leasehold, not 
 freehold, by the way, all devoted to the production 
 of the merino variety of the ovine family. Millions 
 of them are bred in these great solitudes. In 
 favourable years I gather that one is enabled to 
 export about one-half to a fourth of their value, in 
 the shape of wool. This brings a good price, is as 
 negotiable as gold, and the fortunes of the returned 
 colonists that we used to see in London society are 
 thus compiled. Of course there are details, the which 
 I am setting my mind to master. ]5ut they would 
 hardly interest you. One trifling fact I may mention, 
 lest you may imagine the progress of fortune-constructing 
 too ridiculously easy. It is, that there has been ne.xt to 
 no rain for more than a year, strange, almost incredible, 
 as it may seem to you of the rainy isles. In consequence, 
 the country looks like a desert, and tens of thousands ot 
 sheep are dying here, and for hundreds of miles in every 
 direciion. Occurrences of this kind, you will understand, 
 delay indefinitely and perhaps wholly frustrate one's too 
 obvious purpose of gathering a competency and hurrying 
 out of the strange country as fast as may be. 
 
 ' All this is very well,' I hear you say; 'but what 
 about the social system ? Why doesn't he tell me 
 about hcrl — for of course there is a woman somewhere 
 within the orbit of his existence. Wonder what they're 
 like out there. Must be some, I suppose.' 
 
 With your usual acuteness, which I have rarely 
 known at fault, unless confronted by a plain unvarnished
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 113 
 
 robbery like the doing to death of the favourite (and 
 very nearly the backers) in our fatal year, you have hit 
 the gold. 
 
 Well, somehow or other, there is a she. How 
 strange it seems that one's life, whether 
 
 ' Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis 
 Arbor asstiva recreatur aura,' etc., 
 
 or in the midst of cities, or even in the comparatively 
 assured and fortified privacy of a messroom, should 
 never be wholly free from the invasion of womankind. 
 A book, a photograph, a souvenir of the slightest kind, 
 is sufficient to arouse the tempestuous motives of those 
 who are doomed to be ' the prey of the gods ' in this 
 peculiar fashion. How much more so the perfect 
 human form, ' ripe and real,' when it comes before 
 your eyes in all the unconscious temptation of virgin 
 youth and beauty scarce unfolded morning, noon, and 
 night. Add to this that I'm at present Jiabitans in 
 sicco, and you will conclude, with the swift logical 
 subtlety so proverbially yours, that as a latter-day 
 hermit I may compare favourably with St. Anthony. 
 
 Heaven knows I did not rush into danger. Languid 
 and prostrated as I was after the overthrow of all my 
 worldly hopes ; worn and despairing when the one 
 devouring, passionate love of my hfe had disappeared, 
 and it was like the last scene of a tragedy, when 
 nothing is left for the spectators but to wrap their 
 cloaks around them and go home — I deemed that 
 I was coming to a land where there were no women, 
 except black ones or those required for culinary 
 purposes. 
 
 How little we know of these new lands and their 
 
 I
 
 114 THE CROOKED STICK cuai-. 
 
 inhabitants, all English as they are, as if in the Midland 
 Counties, yet of manner strangely fresh ! All is high 
 development and new material. How I am shut up 
 with a magnificent young creature, with a face like 
 Egeria, and a figure like the huntress maid, burning 
 with enthusiasm, talented, cultured, full of all noble 
 feminine attributes ; dangerous with the fascinations of 
 fresh, innocent womanhood, yet ignorant of the ways of 
 the world, and childlike in her unsuspicious confidence ! 
 How I wish I was young again ! I do really, 
 Charlie. Could I but blot out the years that have 
 intervened — not so many — but what Dead -Sea fruits 
 have I not tasted during their stormy course ? \\'hat 
 a burnt -out volcano is this heart of mine! Could I 
 but recall the past and be like one of our schoolboy 
 heroes ! 
 
 ' The happy page who was the lord 
 Of one soft heart and his own sword.* 
 
 What empires and kingdoms would I give — supposing 
 them to be mine — to revert to that position, and so 
 prove myself worthy of the fresh heart, the petals of 
 which are about to open before my graduated advance, 
 like a rose in June ! That I shall be the favoured 
 suitor, despite of the opposition of a good-looking, 
 stalwart, provincial rival, my experience assures me. 
 With women rituonnu is always the interesting, the 
 romantic, the irresistible. In despite of myself, I can 
 see clearly my future position of jtune premier in this 
 opera of the wilderness. It might be worse, you will 
 say. That I grant. Hut you know that Helen of 'J'roy 
 wouKl never control this restless, wayward heart of mine 
 in perpetuity.
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 115 
 
 For the rest, the life is bearable enough, free, 
 untrammelled, novel, with a tinge of adventure. My 
 days are spent in the saddle. There's just a hint of 
 shooting, no hunting, no fishing. We dress for dinner, 
 and live much as at a shooting-lodge in the Highlands, 
 with stock-riders for gillies. So we are not altogether 
 barbarous, as you others imagine. This letter is far 
 too long, and imprudently confiding, so I hasten to 
 subscribe myself yours, as of old, 
 
 Bertram Devereux. 
 
 So much for the impression PolHe was 
 capable of producing on a worn, world-weary 
 heart. 
 
 It was a strange fate which had thus 
 Imprisoned this beautiful creature, so richly 
 endowed with all the attributes which com- 
 bine to form the restless, tameless, unsatisfied 
 man, amid surroundings so uninteresting and 
 changeless. Eager for adventure, even for 
 danger, she was curious with a child's hunger- 
 ing, insatiable appetite for the knowledge of 
 wondrous lands, cities, peoples ; hating the 
 daily monotone to which the woman's house- 
 hold duties are necessarily attuned. Capable 
 of the strongest, the most passionate attach- 
 ments, yet all-Ignorant as yet of the subtle,
 
 Ii6 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 sweet, o'ermastcring tone of the world-con- 
 querini; harmony of love. In the position 
 to which she appeared inmiovably attached 
 by circumstance, she seemed like a strayed 
 brii^ht-[)lumaged bird, a foreign captive, taken 
 in infancy and reared in an alien land, 
 
 A chamois in a sheepfold, a leopardess 
 in a drawing-room, a red deer in a trim and 
 close- paled enclosure, could not have been 
 more hopelessly at war with surroundings, 
 more incongruously provided with food and 
 shelter. Day after day a growing discontent, 
 a hopeless despair of life, seemed to weigh 
 her down, to take the savour from existence, 
 to restrain the instinctive sportiveness of 
 youth, to hush the spirit-song of praise with 
 which, like the awakening l)ird, she should 
 have welcomed each dawninij; morn. 
 
 'Why must it be thus.-*' she often asked 
 herself when, restless at midnight as at noon- 
 day, she gazed from her window across the 
 wide star-lit jilain. in which groups of melan- 
 choly, swaying, pale-hued trees seemed to be 
 whispering secrets of past famine years or 
 sighing weirdly over sornjws to come. 
 
 ' Will it always be thus .'* ' thought she,
 
 IV OR POLLJE'S PROBATION 117 
 
 ' and is my life to trickle slowly along like 
 the course of our enfeebled stream, until after 
 long assimilation to this desert dreariness 
 I become like one of the house- mothers I 
 see around me ? Ignorant, incurious, narrow, 
 with an intelligence gradually shrivelling up 
 to the dimensions of a childhood with which 
 they have nothing else in common ! What 
 a hateful prospect ! What a death in life 
 to look forward to ! Were it not for my 
 darling mother and the few friends I may 
 call my own, I feel as if I could put an end 
 to an existence which has so little to re- 
 commend it, so pitiably small an outlook.' 
 
 In all this outburst of capricious discontent 
 the experienced reader of the world's page 
 will perceive nothing more than the instinct- 
 ive, unwarranted impatience of youth, which 
 in man or woman is so utterly devoid of 
 reason or gratitude. 
 
 What ! does not the vast, calm universe 
 wait and watch, weak railer at destiny, for 
 the completion of ' Nature's wondrous plan,' 
 counting not the years, the aeons, as the 
 sands of the sea, that intervene between 
 promise and fulfilment ? Hast thou not
 
 Il8 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 enjoyed ease, love uinvearyino^, anxious 
 tendance, from the dawn of ih)- helpless, as 
 yet useless being ; and while all creation 
 suffers and travails, canst tliou not endure 
 the unfolding of thy fated lot ? 
 
 Applying, possibly, some such remedies 
 to her mental ailment, life appeared to go 
 on at Corindah much as it had done, Pollie 
 thought, since the earliest days she could 
 remember as a tiny girl. She could almost 
 have supposed that the same things had 
 been said by the same people, or people very 
 like them, since her babyhood. Wonderings 
 whether it would rain soon, by the mildly 
 expectant ; doubts whether it would ever 
 rain again, by the scoffers and unbelievers ; 
 assertions that the seasons had changed, by 
 the prophets of e\il ; sujx-rficial, sanguine 
 predictions thai it would rain some day, by 
 the lighl-miiuled ; hope .ind trusting con- 
 fidence in th(! (ireat Ruler, 1)\- the dexout, 
 that lb- would not suffer his peo[)le to be 
 utterly cast down ami forsaken, that the 
 dumb creatures of His hand would have a 
 l;ound set to their sufferings — all these things 
 had she heard and experienced Irom time
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 119 
 
 to time ever since she could recall herself 
 as a conscious entity. Then after a less 
 or greater interval the blessed rain of heaven 
 would fall, plenteously, excessively, perhaps 
 superfluously, without warning, without limit, 
 and the long agony of the drought would 
 be over. 
 
 Something of this sort had Pollie been 
 saying to her cousin, as they sat at breakfast 
 one gusty, unsettled, red-clouded morning. 
 He had been inquiring satirically whether it 
 ever rained at Corindah. 
 
 ' He had been here six months and had 
 never seen any. Would all the sheep die ? 
 Would all the watercourses dry up ? Would 
 they all be forced to abandon the station ? 
 And was this a sample of Australia and its 
 vaunted bush life ? ' 
 
 'Things are not quite so bad generally,' 
 laughed Pollie ; ' though I cannot deny that 
 in these months, unless the weather changes, 
 it will be what you call a " blue look-out." 
 Poor mother is more anxious every week, 
 and Mr. Gateward's face is becoming fixed 
 in one expression, like that of a bronze idol.' 
 
 ' It hardly seems like a laughing matter,'
 
 I20 THE CROOKED STICK ciiai-. 
 
 said he gravely. ' The loss of the labour of 
 years, of a fortune, and then " Que fairc ? " ' 
 
 'I am iau^hincr in faith.' retorted Pollie ; 
 ' so that really I am in a more religious frame 
 of mind than all the solemn-faced people who 
 despair of Ciod's goodness. Of course, it 
 will rain some time or other. It might even 
 mill to-night, though it does not look the least 
 like it. Again, it might not rain for a year.' 
 
 ' What a terribly incomprehensible state 
 of matters to exist in!' said Bertram. ' I little 
 thought, when I grumbled at a rainy week 
 in England, what blessings in disguise I was 
 undervaluing. And what would be the case 
 if a small deluge took place ? ' 
 
 'All the rivers would be in Hood. A few 
 shepherds and mail-men, poor fellows! would 
 be drowned, and the whole North - West 
 country, say a thousand miles square, would 
 be one luxuriant pr.iiric ol grass nearly as 
 high as your head. Mr, Gatewartl would 
 sin'j for iov as far as his musical disabilities 
 would permit him ; and poor mother's bank 
 account would b(.' nearly twenty thousand 
 pounds on the right sitle within a f(;w weeks.' 
 
 ' And the sheep.'' '
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 121 
 
 * A few hundreds would die — the wet and 
 cold would kill them, being weak. All the 
 rest would wax fat, and perhaps kick in a 
 month.' 
 
 ' Truly wonderful ! I must take your word 
 literally, but really I should hardly believe 
 any one else.' 
 
 'You may always believe me,' the girl 
 said proudly, as she stood up and faced him, 
 with raised head and erect form, her bright 
 blue eyes fixed steadfastly upon his, and 
 almost emitting a flash, it seemed to him, 
 from their steady glow. ' Promise me that 
 every word I say shall be accepted by you 
 as the absolute, unalterable truth, or I shall 
 speak to you no more about my native land, 
 or anything else.' 
 
 ' I promise,' he said, taking her hand in 
 his own and reverently bowing over it ; ' and 
 now I am going for a long ride, to the outer 
 well ; I must be off.' 
 
 ' To Durbah, forty miles and more ? ' she 
 said. ' Why did not you make an earlier 
 start "^ What are you going to ride } ' 
 
 ' Wongamong,' he said. ' He is a wonder- 
 ful goer, and seems quieter than he was.'
 
 122 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' He is a treacherous, bad-tempcrcd brute/ 
 she returned answer, rather quickly, 'and 
 nothing will ever make him quiet. Besides, I 
 think there's some break of weather coming 
 on. The wintl has chano:ed for the third time 
 since sunrise, and the clouds are banking 
 up fist to the west. We might have a 
 storm.' 
 
 ' What fun! 'said the Englishman ; ' I should 
 like it of all thiniii^s. The climate here does 
 not seem to have energy enough for a right 
 down good storm.' 
 
 ' You don't know what you are talking 
 about,' she said ; ' you haven't seen a storm, 
 or a flood, or a bush-fire, or anything. Take 
 my advice antl ride a steady horse to-day. 
 Something tells me you might want one. 
 Promise me that vou will. ' 
 
 There was an unusual earnestness in the 
 girl's voice as she spoke, as, placing her 
 hand on his should<r, sh(; look('(l in his fice. 
 A low muttering roll ol thunder seemed to 
 accentuate her appeal. 'Ihe young man 
 smiled, as he answered, * My dearest Pollie, 
 I should be .sorry to rclusr thtr slightc.'St 
 request so llatteringly in my interest : 1 will
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 123 
 
 seek me a charger practised in the manage 
 in place of the erratic Wongamong.' 
 
 In a few minutes more, as she stood by 
 the open window, she saw him ride through 
 the outer gate on a dark bay horse, whose 
 elastic stride and powerful frame showed 
 him to be one of those rare combinations of 
 strength, speed, and courage, of which the 
 great Australian land holds no inconsiderable 
 number. 
 
 ' Dear old Guardsman ! I'm so glad that 
 he took him. I didn't know that he was in. 
 I wonder what makes me so nervous to-day. 
 It surely cannot be going to rain, or is there 
 an earthquake imminent ? I believe in pre- 
 sentiments, and if the day is like the others 
 we have had this year, I never shall do so 
 again. There goes another clap of thunder ! ' 
 
 That morning was spent by Pollie 
 Devereux, it must be confessed. In a manner 
 so aimless, so inconsistent with her mother's 
 fixed principles on the score of regular 
 employment for young women, that it drew 
 forth more than one mild reproach from 
 that kindly matron. 
 
 ' My dear, I can't bear to see you going
 
 124 THE CROOKED STICK ciiAr. 
 
 about from one room to another without 
 settHnc: to anythini^. Can you not sit down 
 to your work, or practise, or go on with 
 some historical reading, or your French, in 
 which Bertram says you are making such 
 progress ? You're wasting your time sadly.' 
 
 ' Mother ! ' said her daughter, facing round 
 upon her with mock defiance, ' could you sit 
 down to your work if there was going to be 
 a shipwreck, or a cyclone, or a great battle 
 fought on the plain ? Though, really, you 
 good old nKnher, 1 think you would, and 
 thread your needle till the Roundheads 
 marched in at the outer gate, as they did in 
 "The Lay of Hritomart," or took down the 
 slip-rails, as it would be in our case. luit do 
 you know, there is an electrical current in 
 the air, I .un sure, and so I, being of a more 
 e.xcitable nature, do really fi;el s(j aroused 
 and excited, that I can't keej) quiet. Some- 
 thing is going l(j hai>[)en.' 
 
 ' Now, my dearest Pol lie, are not you 
 letting your imagination run away with you.-* 
 What ( .111 happen ? There may l)e a little 
 wind and rain what the shepherds call "a 
 nice storm " — but notliing else, I fc:ar.'
 
 IV OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 125 
 
 '"Something wicked this way comes,'" 
 chanted Pohie, putting herself into a 
 dramatic attitude. ' See how dark it is 
 growing ! Look at the hghtning ! Oh, 
 dear, what a flash ! And down comes the 
 rain at last — in earnest, too.' 
 
 ' The rain will have to be very earnest, 
 my dear,' said Mrs. Devereux, 'before poor 
 Corindah feels the benefit of it — though that 
 certainly is a heavy shower. Early in the 
 season too ; this is only the 8th of 
 February. There is the lunch-bell. Come 
 along, my dear. A little lunch will do you 
 good.' 
 
 ' How wet poor Bertram will be ! ' said 
 Pollie, pityingly. ' He said we couldn't have 
 storms here.'
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 During the h;ilf hour bestowed on lunch 
 the weather ai)parently devoted itself to 
 falsify inj^^ Mrs. Devereux's prediction, and 
 raising Pollie Lo the position of a prophetess. 
 It is a curious fact that in Australia few 
 peo[)le are weather-wise. No one can tell, 
 for instance, with any certainty, when it will 
 rain. No one can say with precision when 
 it will not rain. All other forms of weather, 
 be it understood, are immaterial. Rain means 
 everything — peace, plenty, prosjjeriiy, the 
 potentiality uf boundless wealth ; the want 
 of it los.ses and crosses, sin, .suffering, and 
 starvation. l'"or nearly two years the hearts 
 of the dwellers in thai vast i)astoral region 
 had been made sick with hope deferred. 
 Now, without warning, wiih no jjarticular 
 indication of change from the long, warm
 
 CHAP. V THE CROOKED STICK 127 
 
 days and still, cloudless nights that seemed 
 as if they would never end, that earth would 
 gradually become desiccated into a grave of 
 all living creatures, suddenly it commenced to 
 rain as if to reproduce the Noachian deluge. 
 
 The larger creeks bore a turgid tide, level 
 with their banks, on the surface of which 
 tree -stems and branches, with differing 
 samples of debris, whirled floating down. 
 
 As the hours passed by with no abate- 
 ment of violence in the falling of the rain or 
 the fury of the storm, in which the wind had 
 arisen, and raged with tempestuous fury in 
 the darkened sky, a feeling of awe and alarm 
 crept over the minds of the two women. 
 
 ' There is not a soul about the place, I 
 believe,' said Mrs. Devereux ; ' Mr. Gateward 
 is away, and every man and boy with him. 
 During all the years I have been here I 
 have never seen such a storm. Poor 
 Bertram ! I hope he has taken shelter 
 somewhere. This cold rain is enough to 
 kill him, with such thin clothing as he has 
 on. But of course he will stay at Baradeen ; 
 it would be madness to come on.' 
 
 * He said that he would be home to-night,
 
 I2S THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 wet or elrv. Those were his last words, and 
 he's rather obstinate. I lavcii'l you remarked 
 that, mother ? ' 
 
 ' I am afraid he is. It runs in the blood,' 
 the elder remarked, with a sigh. ' But there 
 will be no danQ:er unless the Wawanoo 
 Creek is ui). It never rises unless the river 
 does, and there's not rain enough for that.' 
 
 * There seems rain enough for anything,' 
 said the girl, shuddering. 'Mark! how it 
 is pouring down now. It will l)e dark in an 
 hour. I do wish Bertram was home.' 
 
 The creek alluded to was a ravine of con- 
 siderable size and de[Hh, which, serving as 
 one of th(! anabranches of the river, was 
 rarely filled e.xcept in llood time, when it acted 
 as a canal for the purpose of carrying off the 
 superfluous water. Now it was almost dry, 
 and apparently wouKl remain .so. h could 
 be distinctly seen from the windows of the 
 room where they were sitting. 
 
 At a sudden cry from llu: girl Mrs. 
 1 )evereu.\ went to the window. 'What a 
 wonder of wonders!" she said ; 'the Wawa- 
 noo is coming down. The i)aling fence in 
 the Hat has been carried away.'
 
 V OR POLLJE'S PROBATION 129 
 
 The fence alluded to was a high and close 
 palisade across a portion of the flat, down 
 which ran one of the channels of the said 
 Wawanoo Creek. An unusual body of rain, 
 falling apparently during one of the thunder- 
 showers, had completely submerged the 
 valley, which, narrowing above the said fence, 
 and being dammed back by it, finally over- 
 bore it, and rushed down the main channel 
 of the creek in a yeasty fiood. 
 
 ' The creek will be twenty feet deep where 
 the road crosses it now,' said Pollie. ' If he 
 comes to it he will have to swim. He will 
 never think of its being so deep, and he 
 might be drowned. I knew something would 
 happen. What a lucky thing he took Guards- 
 man ! ' 
 
 As she spoke her mother pointed to a spot 
 where the track crossed the creek. The road 
 itself was now plainly marked as a sepia- 
 coloured, brown line winding through the 
 grassless, herbless, grey levels of the 
 drought-stricken waste, A horseman was 
 riding at speed along the clearly printed track, 
 through the misty lines of fast-falling rain. 
 
 'It is Bertram coming back,' cried Pollie. 
 
 K
 
 I30 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' I know Guardsman's long stride ; how he is 
 throwinij the dirt behind him ! 1 wouldn't 
 mind the ride myself if I hatl an old habit on. 
 It must be great fun to be as wet as he must 
 be, and to know one cannot be any worse. 
 Do vou think he will trv to swim the 
 creek .-' ' 
 
 ' He docs not seem to dream of pulling 
 up.' said Mrs. Devereux. 'Very likely he 
 thinks it can't be deejj when he crossed 
 dry-shod this morning.' 
 
 'Oh, look!' cried the girl, with a long- 
 drawn inspiration. ' He has ridden straight 
 in without stopping. What a plunge ! They 
 are both over heael and ears in it. P)ut 
 Guardsman swims well. Mr. (iateward told 
 me he saw him in the last flood, when he was 
 only a colt. I can see his head ; how he 
 shakes it ! Gallant old fellow ! And there is 
 Bertram sitting as quietly as il he w.is on dry 
 land. They will be carried down lower, but 
 it is good shelving land on this sitle. Now 
 they are out, rather staggering, but safe. 
 Thank God for that! Oh, mother are you 
 not glad .'* ' 
 
 As Bertram and the brown made joint en
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 131 
 
 trance to the square opposite the stable-yard, 
 dripping Hke a sea-horse bestridden by a 
 merman, he saw a feminine figure in the ver- 
 andah of the barracks gesticulating wildly to 
 him, and in a fashion demanding to be heard. 
 
 ' Mother says you are to come in directly 
 and change your clothes and take something 
 hot, and not to stay out a moment longer than 
 you can help.' 
 
 ' I must see Guardsman made snue first,' 
 answered the young man, with the same im- 
 movable quiet voice, in which not the slightest 
 inflection betrayed any hint of unusual risk. 
 * I really couldn't answer it to my conscience 
 to turn him out to-night. I won't be long, 
 however.' 
 
 • . • • • • 
 
 * When it does rain here it rains hard, I 
 must admit ! ' said Mr. Devereux an hour 
 afterwards, as, completely renovated and 
 very carefully attired, he presented himself at 
 dinner. ' Could not have imagined such a 
 transformation scene of earth and sky. The 
 plain has become a gigantic batter pudding, 
 and the ludicrous attempt at a brook — the 
 Wawanoo Creek — is a minor Mississippi. I
 
 132 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 thought the old horse would have been swept 
 riofht down once.' 
 
 ' You will lind our rivers and some other 
 Australian matters are not to be laughed at,' 
 answered Pollie, with a heightened colour. 
 ' But mother and I are too glad to see you 
 back safe to scold you for anything you might 
 say to-night." 
 
 ' Really I feel {]uite heroic,' he answered, 
 with a smile which was rarely bestowed with 
 so much kindness ; ' 1 suppose people arc 
 drowned now and then.' 
 
 ' 1 should think so,' said Pollie. ' Do you 
 remember that poor young Clarence, from 
 Amhurst, two or three years ago .-* He was 
 very anxious to get to the Bindera station, 
 where they were having a i)arty ; Ik; was told 
 the creek was dangerous, hut would ii \ . 1 lis 
 horse got caught in a log or st)mclhing, and 
 rame over with him. lie was drowned, and 
 carried into the Bindera house ne.xt mornintr 
 a corpse.' 
 
 ' Very sad. P)Ut men must (Irop in life's 
 battle now and then. I'lutre would be loo 
 many of us fellows else "crawling between 
 earth and heaven," as Hamlet says.'
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 133 
 
 'What a cold-blooded way to talk!' said 
 Pollie; 'but of course you really do not think 
 so. Think of quitting life suddenly with all 
 its pleasures.' 
 
 ' Pleasures ?' replied Mr. Devereux abruptly. 
 ' Yes ! I daresay very young persons look at 
 it in that light. After all it's quite a lottery 
 like other games of pitch and toss. Some- 
 times the backers have it all their own way. 
 Then comes a "fielder's" year, and the first- 
 named are obliterated.' 
 
 ' Then do you really think life is only 
 another name for a sort of Derby Day on a 
 large scale, or a Grand National .f*' demanded 
 Pollie, with a shocked expression of counte- 
 nance — ' at the end of which one man is 
 borne in a shining hero, aglow with triumph, 
 while another breaks his neck over the last 
 leap, or loses fame and fortune irrevocably ; 
 and that neither can help the appointed lot?' 
 
 Her cousin regarded her for a moment 
 with a fixed and searching gaze. Then a 
 ripple of merriment broke over his features, 
 and a rarely seen expression of frank admira- 
 tion succeeded to the ordinary composure of 
 his visage. ' I don't go quite as far as that.
 
 134 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 " There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
 Rough-hew them how we will.'' 
 
 But I am afraid lew of us live as if \vc thought 
 so. That ever I should have found myself 
 in Australia was at one time so unlikely, 
 so all but impossible, that I may well be- 
 lieve in the interposition of a Ruler of 
 Events.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 ' 1 believe they've had rain,' is the usual 
 answer to him who ' speirs ' in Australia as 
 to the pastoral welfare of a particular province, 
 district, or legality, li is unnecessary to say 
 more. ' Man wants but Hitle here below' is 
 comparatively true; but a short supply of the 
 aqueous (laid on land parallels in its destruc- 
 tive effects the over abundance at sea. 
 When the rain is withheld for a year or two 
 years, as the case may be, los.ses accumulate, 
 and ruin stalks on aj)ace. The .severity of 
 the acknowledged droughts, not merely 
 accitU;ntal drynesses, is comj)arativc, and is 
 often matter of conversation. 
 
 * This is the worst drought known for 
 many years,' was remarked to a voung but 
 war-worn [jioneer.
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 135 
 
 ' Pretty well, but not equal to that of 187-,' 
 he made answer, 
 
 ' Why do you think so ?' 
 
 'When that drought commenced,' he said 
 slowly, 'we had nine thousand head of cattle 
 on our run on the Darwin. When it broke up 
 we mustered sixteen hundred, and on foot 
 too : we had not had a horse to ride for 
 eiofhteen months.' 
 
 From such merciless disaster was Corindah 
 now saved. Prosperity was assured for at 
 least two years, as well to that spacious 
 property which comprehended 290,000 acres 
 (and not a bad one among them, as Mr. 
 Gateward was fond of asserting) as to a 
 hundred similar pastoral leaseholds from the 
 Macquarie to the Darr. An entirely new 
 state of matters had suddenly arisen. In all 
 directions telegraphic messages were speeding 
 through space, withdrawing this lot of 20,000 
 ewes or that of a thousand store bullocks 
 from sale ; while eager forecasting operators 
 like Mr. Jack Charteris had swept up the 
 supply of saleable sheep, and left their more 
 cautious comrades lamenting their inability 
 to purchase except at prices which ' left no
 
 136 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 margin,' the alternative being to have tens of 
 thousands of acres of waving prairie 'going 
 to waste ' for want of stock to eat it. The 
 face of Nature had indeed changed. Within 
 a fortnight the arid dusty plains, so barren of 
 aspect, were carpeted with a green mantle, 
 wondrousK- vi\-itl of hue and rapid of growth. 
 The creek ran musically murmuring towards 
 the river, which itself 'came down,' a tawny, 
 turbid stream bank high, and in places over- 
 flowing into long dry lagoons and lakelets. 
 Even the birds of the air seemed to be 
 apprised of the wondrous atmospheric change. 
 Great flocks of wild-fowl soared in, mi^T^ratincr 
 from undreamed of central wastes. The 
 lakelets and the river reaches were alive with 
 the heron and the egret. The bird of the 
 wilderness, with giant beak and sweeping 
 wing, was there in battalions ; while the 
 roar of winirs when a cloud of wild-fowl 
 rose from water was like a discharge of 
 artillery. 
 
 Pxtrlram 1 )evereux was, in his heart, truly 
 astonished at the wondrous change wrought 
 in the outward appearance ol tin- region, in 
 the manner and bearing ol ihc dwellers
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 137 
 
 therein, in the tone of the leading newspapers, 
 in everybody's plans, position, and prospects, 
 which had been wrought by so simple and 
 natural an agent. He, however, carefully 
 preserved his ordinary incurious, impassive 
 immobility, and after casually remarking that 
 this was evidently one of the lands known 
 to the author of the Arabian Nights, and 
 that somebody had been rubbing the magic 
 lamp, and commanded a genie to fetch a few 
 million tons of water from Ireland or Upper 
 India, where it was superfluous, and deliver it 
 here, made no other observation, but rode 
 daily with Mr. Gateward over the sodden, 
 springing pastures, wading through the over- 
 flowing marshes, and swimming the dangerous 
 creeks ' where ford there was none,' as if he 
 had always expected the West Logan to be 
 akin to the west of Ireland as to soil and 
 climate, and was not disappointed in his 
 expectation. 
 
 On the morning after the flood Harold 
 Atherstone had betaken himself to the 
 metropolis, only to be forestalled by Jack 
 Charteris in his rapid and comprehensive 
 purchases of stock. Doubtless other pastoral
 
 138 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 personages had been duly informed by the 
 magic wire of the momentous change, but 
 even then, such liad been the terror, the 
 suffering, the dire endurance of every evil 
 of a twofold ruin, that numbers of owners 
 were found willing to sell their advertised 
 sheep at a very slight advance upon the 
 pre-pluvial prices. So might they be assured 
 of the solvency and security which they had 
 dreaded would never be theirs acrain. So 
 might they again lay their heads on their 
 pillow at night, thanking God for all I lis 
 mercies, and for the safety of the future of 
 those dear to them. So miijht thev ao-ain 
 be enabled to go forth among their fellow- 
 men, strong in the consciousness that the 
 aching dread, the long-deferred hope, the 
 dark despair slowly creeping on like some 
 dimly seen but implacable beast of prey, were 
 things of the [)ast, phantoms and shadows 
 to be banished Icjr ever from ihcir unh. united 
 lives. 
 
 All these but lately altered circumstances 
 were distinctl)* in fivour of a (]uick and 
 decisive operator, as was liaroKI Alherstone 
 when he 'saw his way.' Not a plunger like
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 139 
 
 Jack Charteris, he was firm and rapid of 
 evolution when he had distinctly demonstrated 
 his course of action. So when he returned 
 to Maroobil after a month's absence, he had 
 as many sheep on the road, at highly paying 
 prices, as would keep that 'well-known 
 fattening station ' and Corindah besides in 
 grass -eaters for many a month to come. 
 Mrs. Devereux was full of gratitude towards 
 him for managing her delegated business so 
 safely and promptly, and again and again 
 declared that there was no living man like 
 Harold Atherstone. He was always to be 
 relied on in the hour of need. He never 
 made mistakes, or was taken in, or forgot 
 things, or procrastinated, like other men. 
 When he said he would do a thine, that 
 thing was done, if it was in the compass of 
 mortal man to do it. 
 
 ' In short,' said Pollie, before whom and 
 for whose benefit and edification this effusive 
 statement was made, 'in short, he is perfection 
 — a man without a fault. What a pity it is 
 that paragons are never attractive ! ' 
 
 ' Beware of false fires, my darling,' said 
 the tender mother — ' misleading liahts of 
 
 O o
 
 I40 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 feeling apart from reason, which are apt to 
 wreck the trusting, and to end in despairing 
 darkness.' 
 
 Among the visitors to Corindah, who 
 made at least a bi-monthly call, was the 
 Honourable Hector MacCallum, M.L.C. 
 
 He was a prosperous bachelor, verging on 
 middle age, with several good stations, and 
 an (jn\iable power of leaving them in charge 
 of managers and overseers, while he disported 
 himself in the pleasantest spots of the adjacent 
 colonies, or indeed wheresoever he listed — 
 sonif^times even in Tasmania, where he was 
 famed for his picnics, four-in-hand tlriving, 
 and libercdity in entertaining. In that 
 favoured isle, where maidens fair do so 
 greatly preponderate, Mr. MacCallum might 
 have brought back a wih- from any of his 
 summer trips ; and few W(mld have asserted 
 that the (lams(jl honoured by his choice was 
 other than among the lairest and sweetest of 
 that rose-garden f^f girls. 
 
 I hit then something always prevented iiim. 
 He wanted to go to New Zc^aland. h was 
 impossible to s(!ttl(' down bdorc Ik- had seen 
 the wonders ol ih.ii wonderland the pink
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 141 
 
 and-white terraces, the geysers, the paradisiacal 
 gardens, the Eves that flitted through the 
 ' rata ' thickets, the fountains that dripped 
 and flashed through the hush of midnight. 
 Something was always incomplete. He 
 would come aofain. And more than one fair 
 cheek grew pale, and bright eyes lost their 
 lustre, ere the inconstant squatter prince was 
 heralded anew. 
 
 But now it seemed as if the goodly fish, 
 which had so often drawn back and dis- 
 appeared, was about to take the bait. 
 
 Mr. MacCallum's visits were apparently 
 accidental. He happened to be in that part 
 of the country, and took the opportunity of 
 calling. He was on his way to Melbourne 
 or Sydney, and was sure he could execute a 
 commission for Mrs. Devereux or Miss Pollie. 
 This, of course, involved a visit on the way 
 back. He was a good-looking, well-preserved 
 man, so that his forty odd years did not put him 
 at much disadvantage, if any, when he came 
 into competition with younger men. Indeed, 
 it is asserted by the experienced personages 
 of their own sex that young girls are in 
 general not given to undervalue the attentions
 
 142 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 of men older than themselves. It flatters 
 their vanitv or stratifies their self-esteem to 
 discover that their callow charms and un- 
 developed intellects, so lately emancipated 
 from the prosaic thraldom of the schoolroom, 
 suftice to attract men who have seen the 
 world — have, perhaps, borne themselves 
 ' manful under shield ' in the battlefield of 
 life, have struck hard in grim conflicts where 
 quarter is neither given nor received, and 
 been a portion of the great ' passion-play ' of 
 the universe. They look down uj){)n their 
 youthful admirers as comparatively raw and 
 inexjjerienced, like themselves. Theirs is a 
 career of hope and expectation all to come, 
 like their own. ThcN like and esteem them, 
 perhaps take their parts in rehearsals of the 
 oKl, (jld melodrama. But in many cases it is 
 not till they see at their feet the war-worn 
 soldii:r, the scarred veteran who has tcmjited 
 fate .so often in the great hazards of the cam- 
 paign, who has shared th(! cruel jjrivations, 
 the deadly hazards of real life that the 
 imaginative heart ol woman tills u]) all the 
 spaces in the long-outlined sketch ol the hero 
 and the king, the lord anil master of her
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 143 
 
 destiny, to whom she is henceforth proud to 
 yield worship and loving service. 
 
 Why Mr. MacCallum did not marry all this 
 time — heowned to thirty-seven, and hisenemies 
 said he was more like forty-five — the dwellers 
 in the country towns on the line of march 
 exhausted themselves in conjecturing. The 
 boldest hazarded the guess that he might 
 have an unacknowledged wife 'at home.' 
 Others averred that he was pleasure-loving, 
 of epicurean, self-indulgent tastes, having 
 neither high ambition nor religious views. 
 They would be sorry to trust Angelina or 
 Frederica to such a guardianship. Besides, 
 he was getting quite old. In a few years 
 there would be a great change in him. He 
 had aged a good deal since that last trip of 
 his to Europe, when he had the fever in 
 Rome. Of course he was wealthy, but money 
 was not everything, and a man who spent the 
 greater part of the year at his club was not 
 likely to make a particularly good husband. 
 
 The object of all this criticism, comment, 
 and secret exasperation was a squarely built, 
 well-dressed man, slightly above the middle 
 height, and with that indefinable ease of
 
 144 THE CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 manner and social tact that travel, leisure, 
 and the possession of an assured position 
 generally produce. He was kindly, amusing, 
 invariably polite, and deferential to women of 
 all ages ; and there were few who did not 
 acknowledge the charm of his manner, even 
 when they abused him in his absence, or 
 deceived him for their own purposes. In 
 sj)ite of all he was popular, was the Honourable 
 Hector, a man of wide and varied experience, 
 of a bearing and general tournurc which left 
 little to be desired. In the matter of court- 
 ship he knew sufficiently well that it was in- 
 judicious to force the running ; that a waiting 
 race was his best chance. He took care 
 never to prolong his visit ; .dways to encircle 
 himself with some surrountlinQ- of interest 
 during his stay at Corindah. \\v. pleased 
 Pollie and her mother b\- being in posses- 
 sion of the newest inlormation on all sub- 
 jects in which he knew they were interested. 
 He was good-natured and bo)i caniaradc 
 wilh the yf)ung men, at the same time in 
 a quiet way exhibiting a slight superiority — 
 as of one whose sphere was larger, whose 
 po.ssessions, interests, opportunities, and pro-
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 145 
 
 spects generally, placed him upon a different 
 plane from that with which the ordinary 
 individual must be contented. This, of 
 course, rendered more effective the habitual 
 deference which he invariably yielded to both 
 the ladies whom he wished to propitiate, 
 rightly deeming that all the avenues to Pollie's 
 heart were guarded by the mental present- 
 ment of her mother, 
 
 ' Really, we quite miss Mr. MacCallum 
 when he leaves Corindah,' said Pollie one 
 day, as she watched the well-appointed mail- 
 phaeton and high-bred horses which that 
 gentleman always affected, disappearing in 
 the distance. ' He's most amusing and well- 
 informed ; his manners are so finished — 
 really, there is hardly anything about him 
 that you could wish altered.' 
 
 'So clever and practical, too, said Mrs. 
 Devereux. ' He showed me in a few minutes 
 how he was going to lay out the garden at 
 the new house at Wanwondah. Really, it 
 will be the most lovely place. And the 
 irrigation is from a plan of his own.' 
 
 ' It's almost a pity to be so extravagant 
 there, isn't it ? ' said her daughter. ' He
 
 146 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 told niG he never saw it except in tlu; winter 
 and spring. He always spends the summer 
 in some other colony. This year he will go 
 to the hot springs of Waiwera, and see all 
 that delicious Norih Island, and those un- 
 utterably lovely pink - and - white terraces, 
 I low 1 shoultl like to q-o ! ' 
 
 'Quite easy,' said Harold Atherstone, 
 who had been standing by the mantlepiece 
 ajjparently in a fit of abstraction. 'You've 
 to say "yes" to the Honourable Hector's 
 unspokt'n prayer, and he'll take you there, 
 or to llic moon, \\\\v.\\ Mr. Cook discovers a 
 practicable route. 1 le's not more than twenty 
 years older than you are — hardly that.' 
 
 * So you think I am likely to marry for 
 the new house at W'anwondah Crossino-- 
 place?' retorted i'ollie. 'Also for the 
 powin" of going awa\' and leaving all you 
 stupid p(;oj)le to be roasted and boiled 
 during the long dismal suinnicr.-' I'oor 
 things! what would you do without nu: to 
 tease you all .•' Hnt it's a strange pecu- 
 liarity of society, 1 Jjclieve. that a girl can 
 never make any personal remark but invari- 
 ablv the next idea sugg(!Slt:d in her i)y
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 147 
 
 her friends is, "Whom is she trying to 
 marry ? " That being so, w-hy shouldn't I 
 marry Mr. MacCallum ? Not that he has 
 ever asked me.' 
 
 ' But he will — you know he will — and if 
 you allow yourself to be carried away by 
 dreams of luxury and unlimited power of 
 travel, which is more likely, you will regret 
 it once only— that is, all your life after.' 
 
 ' But say you are not serious, my darling,' 
 said her mother, with a half-alarmed look. 
 ' Really, I will take you to Tasmania, or even 
 New Zealand, though it's dreadfully rough — 
 anywhere, rather than you should be tempted 
 to act against your better judgment. Mr. 
 MacCallum is extremely nice and suitable — 
 but he is far too old for you.' 
 
 ' I don't see that at all,' replied the young 
 lady petulantly. ' I like some one I can 
 look up to. All women do. He knows the 
 world of society, letters, politics^not only 
 of these colonies either. Most other girls 
 would — perhaps the phrase is vulgar — "jump 
 at him." Besides, he is most amusing. Not 
 a mere talker, but full of crisp, pleasant ex- 
 pressions and suggestions. He is a new
 
 1 48 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 magazine, witli the leaves uncut. Not like 
 some people, gloomy and abstracted hall the 
 time.' 
 
 ' You don't see lii))i when he's off colour 
 — excuse my slang," answered the young man. 
 ' He is not always aniusing, people say. y')Ut 
 that's not my affair. If age and experience 
 are the valued qualities, I'm sorry I was not 
 born a ^feneration earlier. And now I must 
 say good-bye ; I'm wanted at the back-block 
 Inferno, and have no idea when I shall see 
 you again.' 
 
 ' If you are not here this day fortnight,' 
 said the young lady, with a solemn and tragic 
 expression, 'and at tea-time, see to it.' 
 
 ' But there's all sorts of trouble at Han 
 Ban. The dogs are showing up. All the 
 sheep have to come in. There are no 
 shepherds to l)e got. My working overseer 
 is laid up with acute rlunimatism. 1 luw can 
 I — • 
 
 ' Shepherd or no shcplicrd,' jicrsisted 
 the girl, — ' rain or shine rheumatism or not 
 — this day fortnight, or you will take the 
 consecjuence.' 
 
 ' 1 suppose I must manage it,' (pioili the
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 149 
 
 unfortunate young man. ' Do you remember 
 your Ivanhoe : " Gurth, the son of Beowulf, 
 is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood" ? 
 Seems to me that villenage is not extinct, 
 even in this colonial and democratic com- 
 munity.' 
 
 ' And a very good thing too,' retorts this 
 haughty, undisciplined damsel. ' The feudal 
 system had an amazing deal of good about 
 it. I don't see why we shouldn't revive it 
 out here.' 
 
 ' Looks rather it at present ! ' grumbled 
 Harold. ' Good-bye, Mrs. Devereux. For- 
 tunately the rain's general, so we can stand 
 a good deal of oppression and intimidation.' 
 
 • • • • , 
 
 'In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns 
 to thoughts of love,' 
 
 sang the laureate. And the parallel is 
 sound. Of course it always rains in spring 
 in England. 
 
 But suppose it didn't — as in Australia ? 
 He would find that things went differendy. 
 The ' wanton lapwing ' would not get himself 
 another crest, and the poet would have to 
 furnish himself with another example.
 
 I50 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 In the absence of rain we can assure our 
 readers that things are much otherwise, even 
 with the dumb and feathered tribes. The 
 wild-fowl do come down in a serious, philo- 
 sophical sort of way. Hut what they do in 
 effect is this : — 
 
 They say — ' We have cipliered this thing 
 out. and have come to the conclusion that it 
 is not going to rain, that it will be a dry 
 spring. That being the case, we are not 
 going to pair, or build, or lay eggs, or going 
 through the ordinary fo(jlishness, in anticipa- 
 tion of rain and certain other adjuncts to 
 matrimony, which wi/l not come. 
 
 And they do not pair. 
 
 How are such things managed ? Who 
 teaches the birds of the air ? How do they 
 know it is going to keep dr\- .-^ 
 
 \'et the results are as I state. I'here is 
 no young family to provide for, no j)resents, 
 no trousseaux — and a very good thing, too, 
 under the circumstances. 
 
 .So with the social and amatory enterprises 
 of the human inhabitants of the dry coniury ; 
 the phenomenon of six inches of rain or other- 
 wise makes all the tlillrnnce. Mr. Uldhand
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 151 
 
 had promised to build his youngest son Dick 
 a new cottage at the Bree Bree station, 
 which he had managed for him successfully 
 for several years, after which Dick's marriage 
 with Mary Newcome was to take place, they 
 having been engaged, as was well known to 
 the neighbours here, for the last three years. 
 But the season ' set in dry.' Dick had a bad 
 lambing, and lost sheep besides. So the 
 cottage can't be built this year, the marriage 
 is put off, and Dick's manly countenance wears 
 an air of settled gloom. 
 
 Ergo, it follows that immediately upon 
 the supervening of a period of unexampled 
 prosperity, consequent upon the abnormal 
 rainfall which ' ran ' Wawanoo Creek in 
 half an hour, and narrowly escaped devot- 
 ing Bertram Devereux to the unappeased 
 deities of the waste as a befitting sacrifice, 
 proposals of marriage were thick in the air, 
 and matrimonial offers became nearly as 
 plentiful as bids for store sheep. 
 
 When Hector MacCallum therefore, as 
 became him, gallantly took the lead as repre- 
 sentative of the marrying pastoral section, no 
 one wondered. Speculation and conjecture
 
 152 THE CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 doubtless, were evoked as to where the 
 many-stationed Sultan might deign to cast 
 his coveted kerchief. In despite of inter- 
 provincial jealousies, however, no one was 
 much astonished when reliable information 
 was disseminated to the effect that he had 
 been on a visit of nearly a week to 
 Corindah, had been seen driving Mrs. and 
 Miss Devereux to points of interest in the 
 neighbourhood in his mail-j)haeton, that his 
 groom's livery was more resplendent than 
 ever, and that the famous chestnuts had been 
 replaced by a team of brown horses, admir- 
 ably matched, thorough-bred, and said U) be 
 the most valuable turn-out in work en this 
 side of the line. Acidulated persons, as 
 usual, made exclamation to the effect that 
 'they never could see what there was in that 
 girl; some people luul wonderful luck; bold- 
 ness and assurance seemed to take better 
 than any olhctr qualities with the men 
 nowadays,' and so on. I'm when gradually 
 it oozed out that there was no iriiinipli.ml 
 proclamation of engagement after all, that 
 Mr. MacCallum was gtjing to I'Jigland, could 
 not be back for two or three years, etc. all
 
 V OR POLLTE'S PROBATION 153 
 
 of which certainly pointed to the fact of his 
 proposals having been declined, impossible as 
 such a fact would appear — the clamour of the 
 hard-to-please contingent rose loud and high. 
 ' What did the girl want ? Was she waiting 
 for a prince of the blood ? After having 
 befooled all the men within her reach, from 
 Jack Charteris to the parson, and ending up 
 with a man old enough to be her father, and 
 who certainly should have known better, was 
 it not heartless and indecent to treat him as 
 she had done ? Would not the whole district 
 cry shame upon her, and she be left lamenting 
 in a few years, deserted by every one that 
 had any sense ? A vinegary old maid in the 
 future — it would be all her own fault, and 
 that of her mother's ridiculous vanity and 
 indulgence.' 
 
 All unknowing or careless of these arrows 
 of criticism, the free and fearless maiden 
 pursued her career. Mr. MacCallum had, 
 at a well-chosen moment, made his effort 
 and pressed with practised persistence for a 
 favourable answer. But in vain. Under 
 other conditions, men of his age and 
 attributes have been frequently successful,
 
 1 54 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 to the wrath and astonishment of younger 
 rivals. But circumstances have been in 
 their favour. Poverty, ignorance of the 
 world, ambition on the i^art of the girl's 
 friends, gratitude, have all or each conspired 
 in such case to turn the scale in favour of the 
 wealthy and adroit, if mature, wooer. And 
 so the contract, often a fairly happy one, is 
 concluded. 
 
 But in this case Love, the lord of all, had 
 fair play for once. Pollie had tlistinctly 
 made up her mind, since she was conscious 
 of possessing such a faculty, that she would 
 never marry any one unless she was in love 
 with him ardently, passionately, romantically, 
 without any manner of doubt. People might 
 conie and tr\- to please. She could not helj) 
 that. It was hardly in her nature to be cold 
 or rude to anybody. But as to marrying 
 any one she only liked, she would die fu-st. 
 
 She liked, she respected, she in every way 
 approved of Mr. MacCallum ; but no! She 
 was much honoured, llatlertrd, and pleased, 
 and reallv shrank from the idea of giving him 
 so much i)ain. Mr. MacCallum exaggerated 
 his [jrobable agonies in such a wa\ that a
 
 V OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 155 
 
 weaker woman might probably have given in 
 — from sheer pity. But as to marrying him, it 
 was out of the question. Her answer was 
 ' No,' and nothing could ever alter it. 
 
 So the Honourable Hector had to depart 
 in a more disappointed and disgusted frame 
 of mind than had happened to His Royal 
 Highness for many a day. Drought, debts, 
 dingoes, travelling sheep, were all as nothing 
 to this crowning disaster. Everything else 
 being so flourishing, it was a thunderbolt out 
 of a blue sky, crushing his equanimity and 
 self-satisfaction to the dust. 
 
 Not his happiness, however. A middle- 
 aged bachelor with a good digestion and 
 enviable bank balance is not — whatever the 
 sensational novelist may assert — usually 
 slaughtered by one such miscalculation. He 
 does not like it, of course. He fumes and 
 frets for a week or two, and probably says, 
 ' Confound the girl! 1 thought she really liked 
 me.' Then he falls back upon the time- 
 honoured calculation — a most arithmetically 
 correct one — of those 'other fish in the sea.' 
 Claret has a soothing eff'ect. The Club 
 produces alleviating symptoms. And the
 
 ij6 THE CROOKED STICK chap, v 
 
 Laird of Cockpen either marries the next 
 young lady on his hst, or, departing to far 
 lands, discovers that the su[)j)ly of Calypsos 
 and Ariadnes is practically unlimited. 
 
 MacCallum, like a shrewd personage, as 
 he was, held his tongue and took the next 
 mail for Europe, reappearing within two 
 years with an exceedingly handsome and 
 lady-like wife, who did full justice to his 
 many good qualities, was very popular, and 
 made Wanwondah cjuiie the show country- 
 house of the neighbourhood.
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 After this stupendous incident had ruffled 
 the waters of provincial repose, a long 
 untroubled calm succeeded. Little was heard 
 in the article of news except the weekly 
 chronicle of stock movements : who had sold, 
 who had bought, who, having stocked up — 
 that is, filled his run with all the sheep it 
 would carry, and more — had sold to a new 
 arrival, and gone to England ' for good,' or at 
 least till the long-dated station bills became 
 due, Amonof this last-named division was 
 Mr. Jack Charteris, who, having sold one ot 
 his far-out runs to a Oueenslander, considered 
 this to be a favourable opportunity to take ' a 
 run home,' as he expressed it, for a year, for 
 various specified reasons which he displayed 
 before his friends, such as seeing the world 
 and renewing his constitution, lately injured
 
 158 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 by hard work and anxiety. So he ostenta- 
 tiously took his passage by a well-known mail- 
 steamer, and made all ready to start in a coujjle 
 of months. He had, however, two plans /// 
 petto, of which he did not advise society 
 generally. 
 
 One was, by personal application to 
 English capitalists — being provided with all 
 proper credentials from his bankers and 
 others, with a carefully drawn out schedule of 
 his properties (purchased lands, leasehold, 
 sheep, cattle, horses, outside country), with 
 carefully kept accounts showing the profits 
 upon stations and stock for the last five or ten 
 years, the increasing value ot the wool clip, 
 and the annual expenditure upon jjermanent 
 improvements ; the whole with personal 
 valuation (apprnximati-), and rc^lerences to 
 leading colonists of nuik ,in<l i)Osition — to 
 discovcT whetlicr he, John Charteris, with an 
 improving property, but constaniU in want of 
 cash advances, could not secun^ a loan tor a 
 term (jf years at English rates ol inUni-sl. say 
 five or six per cent, instead of at colonial 
 rates, (;ight. nine, and ten. This would in;ikc 
 a considerable diff(;r(Mict: to Mr. b"k's aiinu.il
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 159 
 
 disbursements, relieve him from anxiety when 
 the money-market hardened, and would, 
 moreover, euchre his friends the bankers in 
 Sydney, with whom he was wont to carry 
 on a half-playful, half-serious war of words 
 whenever they met. 
 
 His other coup was to make a farewell 
 visit to Corindah, and at the last moment ' try 
 his luck,' as he phrased it, with the daughter 
 of the house. He was not over sanguine, 
 but in reviewing the situation, he decided 
 that with women, as with other ' enterprises 
 of great pith and moment,' you never know 
 what you can do till you try. He ran over 
 all the reasons for and against on his fineers 
 — as he was wont to do in a baroain for stock 
 — finally deciding that he would ' submit an 
 offer.' 
 
 Many a time and often had he acted 
 similarly after the same calculation — offered 
 a price far below the owner's presumable 
 valuation and the market rate of the article. 
 As often, to his great surprise, it had been 
 accepted. He would do so now. 
 
 'Let me see,' he said to himself 'Old 
 MacCallum got the sack, they say. I rather
 
 i6o THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 wonder at that — that is, I should have 
 wondered il it had been an\' other eirl. Not 
 another girl in the district but would have 
 accepted him on his knees. Such a house — 
 such horses ! Good-looking, pleasant fellow, 
 full-mouthed of course, but sound on his pins, 
 hardly a grey hair — regular short price in the 
 bettinc^. What a sell for him ! Well, now 
 about Jack Charteris. How stands he for 
 odds? Nine-and-twenty next birthday ; fairly 
 good-looking, so the girls say ; plenty of [)luck, 
 good nature, and impudence ; ride, run, shoot, 
 or fi^ht an\- man of his weiohi in the countrv. 
 Clever? Well, I wish I was a little bettir 
 up in those confounded books. If I were, I 
 really believe I might go in ami win. The 
 only man I'm afraid of is that confounded 
 cousin fellow. 1 le is infernally sly and quiet, 
 and, I expect, is coming u|) in the inside 
 running. I'd like to ])unch his head.' 
 
 Here Mr. Charteris stood up, scjuared his 
 shoulders, and delivered an imaginary right 
 and left into an encm)- with extraordinary 
 gusto. 'rh(,'n exclaiming, ' I I ere goes an) - 
 how ! Ill ■'() in for it on iii\' wav to Svdnev. 
 I'll provide a rt treat in case ol total rout and
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION i6i 
 
 defeat. It will be half forgotten by the time 
 I return.' 
 
 To resolve and to execute were with Mr. 
 Charteris almost simultaneous acts. Working 
 night and day until his preparations were 
 complete, he sent on a note to say when he 
 might be expected, and on the appointed 
 evening drove up, serious and determined, to 
 Corindah crate. He was received with so 
 much cordiality that he half thought his 
 mission was accomplished, and that the 
 princess would accompany him to Europe 
 without notice, which would have been one 
 of the rapid and triumphant coups in which 
 his speculative soul delighted. The real 
 reason was, that both ladies were moved in 
 their feminine hearts by the idea of so old 
 an acquaintance going a journey to a far 
 land, and were sensitively anxious to show 
 him all the honour and attention they could 
 under such exceptional circumstances. 
 
 So the best of us are deceived occasion- 
 ally. Who has not seen the unwonted sparkle 
 in a woman's eyes and as often as not — if 
 the truth be told — put a totally wrong inter- 
 pretation upon the signal } 
 
 M
 
 1 62 THE CROOKED STJCK chap. 
 
 Thus Mr. Chartcris fared, much encour- 
 aged, and greatly heightened in determina- 
 tion. He was at his best and brio^htest all 
 the evening, and when he said — pressing 
 Pollie's hand as they parted — that he wanted 
 to say a last word to her about his voyage 
 if she would be in the orangery before 
 breakfast, that young woman assented in the 
 most unsuspicious manner, believing it to be 
 something about Maltese lace, as to which 
 she had driven him a most unmerciful com- 
 mission. So, shakinsj; his hand wiih renewed 
 fervour, she went off to bed, leaving Mr. 
 Charteris in the seventh heaven, and almost 
 unable to sleep for the tumultuous nature* of 
 his emotions. 
 
 The sun was closely inspected by John 
 Charteris next morning, from its earliest 
 appearance until after about an hour's 
 radiance had been shed upon the vast ocean 
 of verdure, from which its heal extracted a 
 silvery mist. How dillerent Irom the outlot-k 
 onc^ little vear ago! His eye roamed over 
 the vast expanse meditatively, as it calculat- 
 ing th(! number of shec|) to the acre such a 
 grass crop would sustain, il one could only
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 163 
 
 have it for five years all the season through. 
 Suddenly he became aware of a light form 
 flitting through the dark-green foliage and 
 gold-globed greenery of the orangery. 
 
 In a moment he was by her side. His 
 face lit up with innocent pleasure as she 
 greeted him with childish joy. In her heart 
 she thought she had never known him so 
 pleasant in his manner, so nice and friendly, 
 and yet reticent, before. If so improved 
 now, what would he be when he returned 
 from Europe ? She had no more idea of 
 any arriere pensde in meeting him by 
 appointment in the garden than if he had 
 been the Bishop of Riverina. 
 
 When Mr. Charteris, after a few uncon- 
 nected remarks about the beauty of the 
 weather, the prospects of the season, his 
 sorrow for leaving all his old friends, thought 
 it time to come to the point, especially as 
 Pollie in the goodness of her heart replied 
 to the last statement with ' Not more sorry 
 than they are to lose you, Mr. Charteris,' 
 he certainly produced an effect. 
 
 ' Oh, Miss Devereux, oh, my dearest 
 Pollie, if you will let me call you so, why
 
 1 64 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 should we part at all ? Surely you must see 
 the affection I've cherished, the feelinq^s I've 
 had for you ever since we first met. \'cars 
 and years I've stood by and said nothing, 
 because — because 1 was doubtful of your 
 affection, but now, now ! ' 
 
 Here he took her hantl and began gently 
 to draw her towards him, putting an imploring 
 expression into his eyes, which was so utterly 
 foreign to their usual merry and audacious 
 expression, that I'ollie, after one wild, fixed 
 gaze of horrified anxiety, as if to see whether 
 he had not become suddenly insane, burst 
 into a fit of uncontrollable laughter. 
 
 ' Miss Devereux, surely,' began he, with 
 a hurt and surprised look, ' this is not e.\- 
 actly fiiir or kind uucKt the circumstances. 
 What I have said may or may not be ridicu- 
 lous, but it is generally looked upon as a 
 compliment paid to a young latly and not 
 as a matter, pardon me, lor ridicule and 
 contempt.' 
 
 The girl's face changed suddcnlw She 
 made a strong etiort and prevented herself 
 from laj)sing into what miL;ht havi; been an 
 hysterical outbreak ol iiiirlh.
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 165 
 
 ' Mr. Charteris,' she said gravely, ' I am 
 the last person, as you ought to know, likely 
 to hurt your feelings consciously ; but I 
 might ask you whether you think it right or 
 fair to entice me here, with my mind running 
 on Maltese lace and Cingalese ornaments, 
 which were the last things we spoke about 
 last night, and suddenly fire off a proposal 
 in form at me. I declare I was never more 
 astonished in my life. Whatever could you 
 be thinking of? ' 
 
 ' What every one who sees you is thinking 
 of,' answered Jack, humbly and regretfully 
 — ' love and admiration for your sweet self 
 Oh! Miss Devereux, I worship the very 
 ground you stand upon.' 
 
 ' I will never be decently civil to any one 
 again,' declared Pollie. ' I suppose you saw- 
 mother and I Vv^ere glad to see you, and so 
 thought — Heaven forgive you ! — that I had 
 fallen in love with you. Don't you know 
 that girls never show their feelings that way.'* 
 It v/ill be a lesson to you another time. 
 Don't say another word. We shall always 
 be good friends, I hope. When you come 
 out with a wife — you'll find lots of nicer girls
 
 1 66 THE CROOKED STICK chai'. 
 
 than me in England, so everybody says — 
 we shall lauq-h over this. Mother and I will 
 hold our tongues ; nobody need know. I 
 shall not show at breakfast. You had better 
 tell her, and she will comfort you. Good- 
 bye.' 
 
 She looked him frankly in the face and 
 held out her hand, which poor Jack took 
 ruefully, and raisins^ it to his lips, turned 
 away. When he looked round, she had 
 disappeared. The glory of the morning 
 had passed away with lu'r. He made a 
 melancholy attempt to whistle, and slowly 
 betook himself to the stables, where he 
 arrani^ed that his luggage should be stowed 
 in his [)haeton and all things made ready for 
 a start at a moment's notice after breakfast. 
 
 This done, he sauntered into the house, 
 and, intercepting Mrs. Devercux bclore she 
 reached the breakfast-room, told her of the 
 melancholy occurrence- with a countenance 
 to match, and begged her pardon and her 
 daughter's for making so great a mistake. 
 
 Mrs. Devereu.x was a lender- hearted 
 woman, and, as are most of her age, 
 inclined to condone all ollences of this
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 167 
 
 nature, though, hke her daughter, as Mr, 
 Charterls resentfully felt, she expressed ex- 
 treme astonishment at the idea of his having 
 come with malice prepense to make so serious 
 a proposition. She was sure that Pollie had 
 not given him reason to think that she had 
 any other feeling for him but that of sincere, 
 unalloyed friendship, which they had always 
 felt, and, she trusted, always would. 
 
 But Mr. Charteris' humility broke down 
 and changed at this point into something 
 very like a strong sense of unfair treatment. 
 ' Confound it ! ' he broke out. ' That is, I 
 beg a thousand pardons ; but it appears to 
 me the first time in my life that you are 
 not quite just, Mrs. Devereux. How in the 
 world is a man to find out if a girl likes him, 
 if he doesn't ask her? Is he to wait years 
 and years until they both grow old, or until 
 he worries her into making some sign that 
 she cares for him more than other fellows ^ 
 I call that rather a mean way. I must say 
 I thought Miss Devereux liked me, and 
 that's enough in my mind for a man to 
 begin on. I've had my shot, and missed. 
 But for the life of me, I can't see where
 
 i68 THE CROOKED STICK qwkv. 
 
 I've acted either unlike a man or a oentle- 
 man.' 
 
 As Jack stood straight w\i and deh'vered 
 himself of this explanation of his views and 
 principles, with a heightened colour and a 
 kindling eye, Mrs. Devereux could not help 
 thinkinQT that he would have advanced his 
 views ver)- much with her daughter if he 
 had spoken to her in the same decided tone 
 and manner. ' He really is a fine young 
 man,' she thought to herself, 'and very 
 good-looking too. But there's no persuad- 
 ing a wilful girl. 1 hope she may never 
 do worse.' 
 
 Then she took Jack's hand herself in 
 hers, and said, 'My dear John, neither 1 
 nor Polly would hurt your feelings for the 
 world. It did take us hy surprise; but 
 perhaps I ought to have noticed that your 
 atlmiration for her was genuine. 1 (juite 
 agree with )'ou that it is more maiil\- and 
 straightforward for a man to declare him- 
 self positi\(:ly. I am sure we shall always 
 look upon you as one ol our Ixst and dearest 
 friends.' 
 
 * I hope Miss P<jllie may do better,' said
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 169 
 
 Jack gloomily, as he pressed the hand of the 
 kind matron. ' She may or she may not. 
 A girl doesn't always judge men rightly 
 until it is too late — too late — but whether 
 or no, God bless her and you in that and 
 everything else ! Don't forget poor Jack 
 Charteris.' 
 
 And he was gone. 
 
 Mr. Charteris, with habitual forethought, 
 had left nothino- till the last moment. As he 
 came into the yard, he had but to take the 
 reins and gain the box-seat. His horses 
 plunged at their collars, and swept out of 
 the yard across the plain at a rate which 
 showed that they were instinctively aware 
 that a rapid start was intended. Half-way 
 across the first plain he encountered Harold 
 Atherstone on horseback, looking like a man 
 who had already had a long ride. 
 
 ' Hallo ! Jack, whither away ? You look 
 as it you were driving against time. What's 
 up ? ' 
 
 ' Well, I'm off by next week's mail-steamer, 
 as I told you before. I've been at Corindah 
 since yesterday, where I've been fool enough 
 to run my head against a post. I needn't
 
 I70 THE CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 explain,' Harold nodded sympathetically. 
 ' We're in the same boat, I expect. I 
 wouldn't care if you were the fortunate 
 man, old fellow ; though every one has a 
 right to try his own luck. But I expect 
 we shall both be euchred bv that infernal, 
 smooth-faced, mild-voiced, new-chum cousin. 
 I can't see what there is to attract the 
 women about him ; but they are all in the 
 same line. I heard Bella Pemberton prais- 
 ing him up hill and down dale. I suj^pose 
 there is a fate in these things. W here is 
 he now ? ' 
 
 ' I am not prepared to agree with all you 
 say,' answered Harold calmly. 'The end 
 will show. I don't trust him too much 
 myself, though I should he. puzzled upon 
 what to ground my " Doctor Fell " feeling. 
 He is away on some back country that Mrs. 
 Devereux has rented, and won t be back lor 
 a month.' 
 
 ' I hope his horse will j)ul its foot in a 
 crab-iiole and break its neck,' said Jack 
 viciously. ' I wouldn't mintl the girl being 
 carried away from us by a dhdi. She has a 
 right to follow her fancy. But a pale-faced,
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 171 
 
 half-baked, sea-sick looking beggar like that 
 — it's more than a fellow can bear.' 
 
 ' Come, Jack, you're unjust, and not over 
 respectful to Miss Devereux herself. But 
 I make allowances. Good-bye, old man. Bon 
 voyage ! Bring out a rosy-cheeked English 
 girl. Hearts are reparable commodities, you 
 know. Yours has been broken before.' 
 
 ' Never like this, Harold ; give you my 
 word. I could sell the whole place, and cut 
 the colony for ever, I feel so miserable and 
 downhearted. But I'm not one of the lie- 
 down-and-die sort, so I suppose I shall risk 
 another entry. Good-bye, old man. God 
 bless you ! ' 
 
 A silent hand-grasp, and the friends parted. 
 Mr. Charteris' equipage gradually faded away 
 in the mirage of the far distance, while Harold 
 rode quietly onward towards his own station 
 — much musing and with a heart less calm 
 than his words had indicated. 
 
 When he arrived at the spot where the 
 tracks diverged, he was conscious of a strong 
 instinctive inclination — first of his steed, and 
 then of himself — to take the track which 
 led to Corindah. After combating this not
 
 172 THE CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 wholly logical tendency, and telling himself 
 that it was his first duty to go and see that 
 all thino^s were well in order at home before 
 making: his usual call at Corindah, he descried 
 another horseman coming rather fast across 
 the plain, and evidently making for the 
 Corindah track. 
 
 Pulling up so as to give the stranger an 
 opportunity for ranging alongside, he presently 
 said to himself involuntarily, ' Why, it's the 
 parson ; and furthermore, 1 shall have to go 
 to Corindah now, as the old lady says she 
 fmds it hard work entertaining Courtenay all 
 liv himself. He's not a bad hand at talking, 
 but he's so terrifically serious and matter-ot- 
 fact that he's rather much for a couple of 
 women. When Bertram's there it's better, 
 for I notice he generally contrives to get up 
 an arirument with him, and bowl him over on 
 some p(Mni of churcli history. ihal fellow 
 Bertram knows everything, to do him justice.' 
 
 As these thoughts passed through his mind 
 the individual referred to cantered up on an 
 active-looking hackney, rather high in bone, 
 and greeted him with jileased recognition. 
 
 ' 1 was debating in my own mind, Mr.
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 173 
 
 Atherstone,' he said, 'whether I should hold 
 divine service at your station to-day or at 
 that of Mrs. Devereux,' 
 
 ' You are equally welcome at both houses, 
 as you know,' said the layman ; 'but I think 
 it may be perhaps a more convenient arrange- 
 ment in all respects to manage it in this way. 
 If you will ride home with me now to 
 Maroobil, I will see that all the men are 
 mustered and the wool-shed got ready to- 
 night. I can send a messenger to Corindah 
 with a note telling Mrs. Devereux that you 
 and I will be there to-morrow night, which 
 will be Saturday. She will then have every- 
 thing prepared for a regular morning service 
 on Sunday.' 
 
 The clergyman bowed assentingly. ' I 
 think that will suit better than the plan I had 
 proposed to myself of going there to-night. 
 There are a good many people within a few 
 hours' ride of Corindah, and Mrs. Devereux 
 always kindly sends word to them of my 
 arrival. The Sabbath will be the more ap- 
 propriate day for divine service at Corindah, 
 where there will probably be a larger 
 gathering.'
 
 174 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' Then we may as well ride,' said the other, 
 lookinq- at his watch, ' and we shall be in time 
 for a late lunch at Maroobil.' 
 
 The Rev. Cyril Courtenay was a spare, 
 rather angular young man, about seven-and- 
 twenty, who had a parish about as large as 
 Scotland to supply, as he best might, with 
 religious nourishment and spiritual consola- 
 tion. He had taken a colonial University 
 deofree, and was therefore well instructed in 
 a general way, in addition to which he was a 
 gentleman by birth and early training He 
 was lifted with a commendable amount of 
 zeal for the cause of true religion generally, if 
 more particularly for the Church of England, 
 of which he was an ordained clergyman. 
 
 His duties were different from what they 
 would have been in an Iinglish parish. The 
 distances were indeed magnificent. I I is 
 stipend was i)aid chielly by the voluntary 
 contributions (A the inhabitants ot the district 
 of West Logan, and partly from a fund of 
 which the bishop of his dioces(! had the 
 management, and fmin which h(; was able to 
 suj)plement the incomes of ilu; poorer clergy. 
 This amounted to about two hundred and
 
 VI OR POLLIFJS PROBATION 175 
 
 fifty pounds per annum. The contributories 
 were almost entirely squatters. The other 
 laymen of the denomination — labourers, shep- 
 herds, station hands, boundary riders, etc. — 
 though they attended his services cheerfully, 
 did not consider themselves bound to pay any- 
 thing ; holding, apparently, that the Rev. Cyril 
 was included in the category of ' swells ' — a 
 class radically differing from themselves, 
 whose subsistence was safe and assured, being 
 provided for in some mysterious manner 
 between the squatters and the Government, 
 by whom all the good things of this life, in 
 their opinion, including ' place and pay,' were 
 distributed at will. 
 
 The horse of the Rev. Cyril had started 
 off when Mr. Atherstone gave the signal to 
 his own hackney, and powdered along the 
 level road as if a hand-gallop was the only 
 pace with which he was acquainted. It is 
 a curious fact that the clergymen of all 
 Protestant denominations ride hard, and are 
 not famous for keeping their horses in good 
 condition. Exceptis excipiendis, of course. 
 There are not many of them, either, to whom 
 the laity are anxious to lend superior hack-
 
 « 
 
 176 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 neys. They are accused, and not without 
 reason, of being hard on their borrowed 
 mounts, and of not being careful of their 
 sustenance. The priest ol the Rc)n"vish com- 
 munion, on the other hand, invariably has a 
 good horse, in good condition. He treats 
 him well and tenderly withal. Why this 
 difference ^ Why the balance of care and 
 merciful dealinir on the side of our Roman 
 Catholic brethren ? For one thing, priests are 
 chiefly Irishmen, who are horsemen and horse- 
 lov^ers to a man. Then the celibate Levite, 
 having no human outlet for his affections, pets 
 his steed, as the old maid her cat. W^'th the 
 married clergyman the oats of the rough- 
 coated, though serviceable, steed come often 
 in competition with the butcher's and baker's 
 bills or the children's schooling. Tin; married 
 parson's horse, like himself, must work hard 
 on the smallest modicum ot sustenance, lodg- 
 ing, and sujjport that will keep body and 
 soul together. And very good work the i)air 
 often do. 
 
 The Rev. Cyril, however, being a bachelor, 
 and living a gootl ileal at Irce quarters, was 
 not an impecunious individual, lie should
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 177 
 
 therefore have had his hackney in better 
 order. But it was more a matter of careless- 
 ness with him than lack of purpose. He 
 had not been a horseman in his youth. 
 Australian born as he was, he had studied 
 hard and permitted himself few recreations 
 of a physical kind ; so that when, after serving 
 as a catechist, he was appointed to the district 
 of West Logan, where he had two or three 
 hundred miles a week to ride or drive in a 
 general way, he found himself awkwardly 
 deficient in this particular accomplish- 
 ment. 
 
 To take a man-servant with him always 
 would have doubled his expenses, without 
 being of any corresponding benefit. After 
 trying It for a few months he gave it up. He 
 then took to riding and driving himself — at 
 first with partial success. Inasmuch as he had 
 several falls, and the periodical overthrow of 
 the parson's buggy became part of the monthly 
 news of the district. Gradually, however, 
 he attained to that measure of proficiency 
 which enables a man to ride a quiet horse 
 along a road or through open country, besides 
 being able to drive a buggy without colliding
 
 178 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 with obstacles. He certainl)- drove with 
 painfully loose reins, and rode his horse much 
 after the sailor's fashion, as if they are war- 
 ranted to go fifty miles without stopping. 
 However, he got on pretty well on the whole, 
 and Australian horses, like Cossack ponies, 
 being accustomed to stand a good deal of 
 violent exercise with the aid only of occasional 
 feeding and no grooming at all, ]\Ir. Courtenay 
 and his steed got through their work and 
 adventures reasonably well. 
 
 Three o'clock saw the two young men at 
 the Maroobil home station, a large, old- 
 fashioned, comlorlable congferies ol buildin^rs, 
 without attempt at architectural embellish- 
 menl. The barns, sheds, and stables were 
 massive and commodious, showing signs of 
 having been built in that earlier period of 
 colonial history when less attention was paid 
 to rapidity of construction. The garden was 
 full of fruit-trees of great age and size, which 
 even in the late droughts seemed to have 
 been supplied with adequate; moisture. Com- 
 fort and massiveness had l)ccn the leading 
 characteristics of the establishment since its 
 foundation. 1 lomesteads have a recognisable
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 179 
 
 expression at first sight, even as their 
 proprietors. 
 
 A neat brown-faced groom took the horses 
 from the young men as they dismounted, 
 looking critically at the rather ' tucked up ' 
 condition of the parson's steed. ' Take Mr. 
 Courtenay's horse to a box and feed him 
 till sundown ; then put him into the creek 
 paddock. Go round and tell the hands to 
 roll up in the shed at half- past seven to- 
 night. Mr. Courtenay will hold service.' 
 The groom touched his hat with a gesture 
 of assent, and departed with his charge. 
 
 The principal sitting-room at Maroobil was 
 a fairly large apartment, which did not aspire 
 to the dignity of a drawing-room. In the 
 days of his father and mother Harold had 
 always remembered them sitting there in the 
 evenings after the evening meal had been 
 cleared away. There was a large old- 
 fashioned fireplace, where in winter such a 
 fire glowed as effectually prevented those 
 in the room from being cold. A solid 
 mahogany table enabled any one to read or 
 write thereon with comfort. And Harold 
 was one of those persons who was unable
 
 i8o THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 to pass his evenings in a general way without 
 doinof more or less of both. A well-chosen 
 library, with most of the standard authors 
 and a reasonable infusion of modern lio^ht 
 literature, filled up one end of the room. 
 Sofas and lounges helped to redeem the 
 room from stiffness or discomfort. Full- 
 length portraits in oil of I larold's father and 
 mother, as also of a preceding generation, 
 with an admiral who had fought at Trafalgar, 
 adorned the walls. 
 
 A stag's head and antlers shot in New 
 Zealand, with a brace of stuffed pheasants 
 and the brush of an Australian -bred fox, 
 were fixed over doorways. Guns and rifles 
 of every kind of size, gauge, and construction 
 filled a couple of racks. All things were 
 neat and scrupulously clean, but there was 
 that total absence of ornamentation which 
 characterises a bachelor establishment of a 
 settled and confirnu;d type. 
 
 In the evening, when the master ol the 
 estal)lishment and his clerical guest walkc:d 
 across the half-mih- wliich sc|)aralc(l the 
 wool-shed from the house — anotiier old-world 
 institution al)surdl)' lutar the homestead, as
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION i8i 
 
 the overseer, a ' Riverina man ' of advanced 
 views, declared — a fairly numerous congrega- 
 tion was assembled. The chairs and forms 
 had been conveniently placed for the people. 
 The wool table had been dressed up, so as 
 to be made a serviceable readino- - desk. 
 Candles in tin sconces lit up the building 
 — a matter which had been found necessary 
 during theatrical representations in the same 
 building during the shearing season, when 
 travelling troupes of various orders of merit 
 essay to levy toll on the cash earnings so 
 freely disbursed at such times. 
 
 It was a representative gathering, in some 
 respects a strange and pathetic assemblage. 
 It was known that Mr. Atherstone par- 
 ticularly wished all his employees to attend 
 these occasional services, and to pay due 
 respect to whatever clergyman, in the exer- 
 cise of his vocation, might find his way to 
 Maroobil. Harold was unprejudiced as to 
 denominations, although firmly attached to 
 his own, and exacted as far as possible a 
 decent recognition of the trouble and personal 
 expenditure undertaken for the spiritual 
 welfare of the neighbourhood.
 
 iS2 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 On the nearest form miirht be seen the 
 unmistakable type of the Enp^lish peasant 
 from Essex. The gardener, John Thrum, 
 and his wife, had emigrated from Bishop- 
 Stortford thirty years ago, and finding a 
 congenial resting-place at Maroobil, had 
 remained there ever since, saving their 
 money, and at the beginning of every year 
 expressing their determination to ' go home 
 to England.' A dozen station hands and 
 boundary riders exhibited bronzed and sun- 
 burnt features, darkened almost to the com- 
 plexion of ' Hig Hilly,' the black fellow, who, 
 with a clean shirt and a countenance of 
 edifying solemnity, .sat on one of the back 
 benches. A score of young men and lads, 
 long of limb, rather slouching of manner, 
 with regular features and atliK-lic frames, 
 showed a general resemblance in type, such 
 as that towards which the Anglo-Celtic and 
 Anglo-Saxon Australian is gradually merg- 
 ing, A few women and children, a stray 
 hawker, a policeman on the track of horse- 
 stealers, resplendent in spotless boots and 
 breeches — voilii /oiis ! There; were Roman 
 Catholics among the crowd, but much abiding
 
 IV 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 183 
 
 in the backwoods had rubbed off prejudice. 
 Padres were scarce, anyhow. There was 
 no chapel within fifty miles, and they didn't 
 think it would be any harm to come. 
 
 For the rest, the service of the Church 
 of England, slightly condensed, was gone 
 through ; a plain, serviceable sermon, sound 
 in doctrine and not above the heads of the 
 hearers, was administered ; the benediction 
 was said ; and the little congregation composed 
 of such different elements dispersed — some 
 of them certainly soothed and comforted by 
 the familiar words, if by nought else ; others, 
 let us hope, induced to consider or amend 
 their course of life, where such was needful. 
 
 As the young men strolled home back 
 to the homestead the clergyman, after a 
 pause, said, ' It often oppresses me with a 
 feeling of sadness, the doubt which I feel 
 whether any appreciable good results from 
 these occasional services, the efforts of 
 myself and other men, who labour under 
 different titles in the Lord's vineyard. 
 When we reflect on the lives these men, 
 almost without exception, lead — the old 
 gardener, perhaps, the sole exception, and
 
 1 84 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 the women and children— a man may well 
 doubt whether he is not wc-irintr out iiis 
 hfe for nought.' 
 
 * It's hard to say,' answered Harold. ' If 
 the soldier does not fight, the battle is not 
 won. One does not see much imjjrovement, 
 certainly, from decade to decade. Perhaps 
 there is less of the open, reckless profligacy 
 that we used to hear of in our boyhood. 
 liut no doubt most of the men that we saw 
 to-night gamble, drink, and in riotous living 
 of one form or other dispose of their yearly 
 wages ; confessedly going to town at Christ- 
 mas, or some other holiday, lo " knock it 
 own. 
 
 ' All of them ? ' said ih<! preacher. ' Surely 
 there must be some of them who do not .<* ' 
 
 ' Well, not the married men perhaps — 
 those who have farms and who live in the 
 C(joler regions, near the foothills, as the 
 Americans say, of the great mountain-chain. 
 They save their money, antl take it home to 
 their wives ; it helps for harvest and other 
 time,' of need. I)Ut the; older men, the 
 regular nomadic hamls, who are rar(;iy 
 married, and the boys, save nothing, except
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 1S5 
 
 for a grand annual carnival, which after a 
 month leaves them penniless for another 
 year.' 
 
 ' A practice which must have the most 
 demoralising effect upon these poor victims 
 of drink and debauchery ? ' 
 
 ' I really can't say that it has,' replied 
 Harold Atherstone. ' That is the extra- 
 ordinary part of it. That grizzled, clean- 
 shaved man with the square shoulders and 
 highly respectable English appearance is a 
 Devonshire man, who came here early in 
 life. He has been employed on Maroobil, 
 off and on, ever since I remember. He 
 never drinks when at work. You might 
 send him into the township with a five- 
 pound note any day and he would return 
 sober. He is as hard as nails. I would 
 take his word as soon as any friend I know. 
 He is brave, honest, hard-working, simple. 
 As a labourer he is without a fault. He is 
 the stuff of which England's best soldiers 
 and sailors are made. And yet ' 
 
 ' And yet what ? ' 
 
 ' He is a hopeless and irreclaimable 
 drunkard. He has collected his knock-about
 
 1 86 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 money, his shearing, and his harvest money 
 about the end of January. Hy the first or 
 second week in March he has not a shiUing 
 in the world — starting out "on the wallaby," 
 as he calls it, sober and penniless, with 
 barely a shirt to his back, trusting to the first 
 job he meets for food and covering. What 
 are you to do with a man like that ? ' 
 
 ' Surely a word in season might inlluence 
 him ? ' 
 
 ' Not if one rose from the dead. 
 
 ' Because, now consider the case carefully, 
 as Mr. Jaggers says. Here is a man who 
 has self-denial enough, with the raging 
 drunkard's thirst upon him, to suddenly de- 
 termine to abstain wholly, solely, and abso- 
 lutely from even a teaspoonful of beer, wine, 
 or alcohol, with gallons of it under his nose 
 at every jniblic-house he passes. When you 
 talk to him he is as sober as I am — more so 
 indeed, for I am going to have a glass of 
 whisky and water to-niijlu, whereas he will 
 touch nothing for nearly a year. lie says, 
 " Well, master, 1 be always main sorr\- at the 
 time, and 1 do ;iiin not to touch it no more. 
 i)Ui the de\il, lie be loo strong for I, and
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 187 
 
 zumhow or zumhow, the old feeling comes 
 over me arter Christmas time, and I knocks 
 all the cheques down, zame as before. But 
 I've neither chick nor child, and I reckon I 
 harm no one but myself." 
 
 ' " But you'll die in a ditch some day, 
 Ben," I say to him. 
 
 ' " Like as not, master," he replies, quite 
 good-humouredly ; " and no great matter. A 
 man must die when his turn comes. But 
 you'll have the hay spoiling, master, if you 
 keeps a-talkin' to your hands 'stead of drivin' 
 'em at their work." ' 
 
 ' How it must ruin their constitution ! ' 
 groaned the clergyman. ' They can't have 
 a healthy pulse or movement.' 
 
 ' Even that is not borne out by fact,' said 
 the squatter. ' Have up this old private in 
 the industrial army, and what do you find ? 
 His eye is clear, his cheek is healthy and 
 brown. Let either of us, fairly strong men 
 — taller and broader too — stand alongside 
 of him at a hard day's work, and see where 
 we shall be ! Every muscle and sinew, 
 strained and tested since childhood, is like 
 wire compared to cord. The country-bred
 
 i88 THE CROOKED STICK chap, 
 
 Englishman is certainly the best workini:^ 
 animal in the world, and I cannot conscien- 
 tiously say that this man's bodily or mental 
 powers have suffered for the life he has led,' 
 
 ' Is there no hope, then ?' said the young 
 preacher despondingly. ' Must the best 
 and bravest of the race be doomed to this 
 hopeless degradation ? The preacher's warn- 
 ing is useless, the kindly master's advice, 
 the teaching of experience, the voice of God. 
 W'li.it are we to look to in the future ? ' 
 
 ' To the spread of education and the 
 development of intelligence. I see no other 
 safeguard. Ben can neither read nor write. 
 Hundreds like him can do so with difficulty 
 — which amounts to nearly the same thing. 
 A certain reaction sets in after continuous 
 labour. What change or recreation have 
 these barren intelligences so complete, so 
 transforming as the madness of into.xication ^ 
 With culture — national ami universal — will 
 come additional means of recreation a 
 hundredfold multiplied. Willi the rehnc:- 
 ment inseparabh^ from education will come 
 the distaste for unbridled dcbauchcrv, lor 
 th<- coarse and degrading enjoyments of
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 189 
 
 mere sensuality, for a practice which will 
 have become unfashionable with every grade 
 and every class of society.' 
 
 ' Then you trust in the millennium of 
 universal education — secular or otherwise — 
 not fearinof the communistic and atheistic 
 principles which may be involved by mere 
 mental culture unregulated by religious 
 teachino-.' 
 
 ' So long as the race preserves the attri- 
 butes which have always distinguished it, so 
 long as the passions disturb the reasoning 
 powers, so long as the body preserves its 
 present relation to the spirit, men will drink 
 to heighten pleasure or to dull pain. But 
 in proportion as the mental powers are de- 
 veloped and refined by culture, so will the 
 vice which we call drunkenness diminish, 
 perhaps disappear. With other results of 
 the tillage of that rich and boundless estate, 
 the nation's mind, so long fallow, so negli- 
 gently worked, I shall not at present concern 
 myself. I have my own opinion.' 
 
 'You will not take anything .-^ ' said Ather- 
 stone, lighting his pipe as the two men sat 
 over the wide fireplace upon their return
 
 I90 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 from the wool-shed. ' Light wine or spirits 
 you will find on the tray ; the aerated water 
 is yonder.' 
 
 ' I think it better for me to practise what 
 I preach in the matter of intoxicating liquors,' 
 said Mr. Courtenay, filling a large tumbler 
 with the aerated water. ' This is very re- 
 freshing — though I do not feel called upon 
 to denounce the moderate use of what was 
 doubtless ordained for wise purposes.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 ' I can put your horse in the paddock, and 
 let me drive you over to Corindah,' said the 
 host after breakfast next morning. ' He will 
 be all the better for il. and on return you 
 can make across to \'andah just as well Irom 
 here. I'll send Jack with you across the 
 bush, and h(.:'ll jnit you on to the main Wan- 
 nonbah road.' 
 
 'Thank you very much, Mr. Atherstone ; 
 \()U are always considerate. 1 began to think 
 Rover was failiiiL;- a little; yet I had only 
 ridden him lorlv iiiilrs when 1 met nou.' 
 
 * Bef(jre lunch-tinu; ?' said llu: other, smil- 
 ing. ' W'cll, he is a good horse, and carries 
 you well ; only, when you come ijack hoin
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 191 
 
 Yandah, I'd put the other nag into commis- 
 sion. Leave Rover here till autumn, and 
 he'll be fat and strong to carry you all the 
 winter. And now, if you have any writing 
 to do before lunch, I must leave you in pos- 
 session. We'll start at half-past three sharp. 
 There's the library, the writing-table, the 
 house generally, to do as you like with till I 
 come back to lunch.' 
 
 Punctually at the appointed hour after 
 lunch the pair of fast -trotting, well-bred 
 buggy horses whirled the two young men 
 away on the track to Corindah, a pathway 
 which, already well-beaten, did not appear to 
 be in danger of becoming faint from disuse. 
 
 Arriving before sundown, they were re- 
 ceived with unmistakable cordiality by the 
 lady of the house, who explained that Pollie 
 had gone out for a ride with her cousin, but 
 would be home by tea-time. This trifling 
 piece of intelligence did not, strange to relate, 
 appear to add to the satisfaction of either 
 guest. Nor even when the missing damsel 
 came riding in, looking deliciously fresh and 
 exhilarated by the healthful exercise, talking 
 in an animated way to Mr. Bertram Devereux,
 
 192 77//: CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 who, attired with o;reat neatness and mounted 
 upon the handsomest horse tliat Corindah 
 'had to its name,' looked hke an equestrian 
 lounger from Rotten Row, was their equa- 
 nimity altoi^ether restored. Marold was re- 
 served and imperturbable as usual — even 
 more so. Mr. Courtenay discoursed gloomily 
 about the low state of morality everywhere 
 apparent in the bush. The rather carefully 
 prepared tea entertainment, to which poor 
 Mrs. Devereu.x had looked forward with a 
 certain [jleasurable anticipation, proved flat 
 and uninteresting. 
 
 The attendance was comi)aratively large 
 in the dining-room of the bachelor's quarters, 
 which Mrs. Devereux had caused to be 
 rigorously cleaned out for the occasion. But 
 it was agreed that the sermon of Mr. 
 Court(Miay was not so good as usual ; that he 
 had 'gone off in his preaching, and had not 
 been so pleasant-mannered as was his wont. 
 Mrs. Devereux was lost in astonishment at 
 the variation in his performance and de- 
 meanour, and concludc^tl by remarking to 
 Pollic j)riyalely that clergymen were uncertain 
 in their ways, and that Mi-. Courtenay in
 
 VI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 193 
 
 particular, must have been overworking him- 
 self lately, which accounted for his altered 
 form. 
 
 Mrs. Devereux was anxious to confide in 
 Harold about Mr. Charteris' unlucky declara- 
 tion before his departure, and to assure her- 
 self of his approval of her conduct. She 
 knew that the young men were as brothers, 
 and that Mr. Charteris would by no means 
 object to such a proceeding. But Harold 
 said rather sternly that he and Mr. Courtenay 
 must drive home that afternoon : he had 
 work to do, etc. ; and in spite of an appealing 
 and surprised glance from Miss Pollie, he 
 adhered to his resolution, and after saying 
 farewell formally, was seen no more.
 
 CllArXKR VII 
 
 Though tlicrc was nothing overt in the 
 manner of Harold Atherstonc upon which 
 she could fastt-n as showing resentment or 
 offence, yet did Miss Devereux acknowledge 
 in her secret heart a cooln(^ss in the demean- 
 our of her old friend which troubled her. 
 He was always so kind, so honest, so 
 considerate. ' Tender and true ' ex[}ressed 
 her thouLrhts. She could not think of his 
 disapproval without regret, even pain. I le 
 hid a way of always being in the right, too. 
 On many occasions had they dillered in 
 opinion. She recalled how in\arial)ly it had 
 been forced upon her cooler, juster self that 
 his opinion had been correct from the be- 
 ginning. Suppose, she thought to herself, 
 as she leaned out of ih<' window and watched
 
 CHAP. VII THE CROOKED STICK 195 
 
 the Stars with strange undefined yearnings, 
 that Harold should be ricjht this time ! He 
 had said nothing, only showed by his man- 
 ner, by his countenance, every inflexion of 
 which she knew so well, that he disliked this 
 increasing intimacy with her cousin. Was 
 it increasing? A mere half- friendship, 
 founded on curiosity, admiration of the 
 unknown, upon her own ideal, enveloping 
 him like a costume at a masquerade. 
 
 It is possible that this highly important 
 retrospective process might have proceeded 
 to much greater length and depth of research, 
 that curiously constructed organ the female 
 heart being full of all manner of strange 
 corridors, galleries, and shafts, of utterly 
 unknown measure and limit. But circum- 
 stances arose — circumstances which altered 
 the aspect of affairs — which turned tempor- 
 arily the maiden's thoughts into far other 
 channels. 
 
 The season being so exceptionally good, 
 the stock and station being nearly 'able 
 to manage themselves,' as Mr. Gateward 
 expressed it, the highly original idea of a 
 summer trip, for the benefit of her own and
 
 196 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 her daughter's health, suggested itself to the 
 mind of Mrs. Devereux. 
 
 'Poor dear! shi; has been shut up here 
 {juite long enough,' said the lo\ ing mother, 
 * I can't sa)' that she doesn't look well, but a 
 voyage must benefit her. It will give a 
 change of ideas. It may take away that 
 restless, discontented feeling which comes to 
 her now so often.' 
 
 Thereupon it was decided that they were 
 to g(j to Sydney, and spend a fortnight 
 among their friends. llien by steamer to 
 Melbourne. From that city tlu^y would take 
 one of the New Zealand boats, so as to pass 
 a portion of the summer at the fairy lakes of 
 Rotomahana and the hot springs of Waiwera 
 — that modern imitation of Paradise. 
 
 P'or this unprecedented ste]) Mrs. I )evereux 
 had more than one reason. She ccitainlv 
 thouLfht il would tend to her darliiiLi's mental 
 and bodily improvement. Ihit that was not 
 all. Willi womanly (juickness sharpened by 
 a UKJther's instinct, she had divined that the 
 intimacy between I'ollic and lur cousin was 
 .slowly bul surely coming closer, nearer, 
 p<:rha[)S dearer.
 
 vii OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 197 
 
 Of the probable denouement she had an 
 instinctive dread. ' I don't know what it is,' 
 she said to herself, ' but I can't altogether 
 put faith in Bertram. It isn't that I can say 
 anything against him. He is clever, manly, 
 good-looking in his way. I didn't think so 
 at first. But somehow I don't seem to be 
 able to know him. He is as great a stranger 
 as the first day I set eyes upon him. Oh ! 
 why can't she take Harold Atherstone, who 
 is worth half a dozen of him — of any other 
 man I ever saw, except poor Brian ? ' 
 
 If there was any regret at parting with 
 any one at Corindah, Pollie availed herself 
 of one of the sex's weapons, and reticently 
 made no sign. She appeared to be wild 
 with delight at the 
 
 sea-change 
 Into something rich and strange, 
 
 which her daily life was presently to 
 undergo. It may be that she herself was 
 conscious of the slowly increasing power of a 
 fascination which she was powerless to resist. 
 In its present stage — such is the curious, 
 contradictory nature of the maiden's heart
 
 198 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 — she regarded it wiih fear and unwilling- 
 ness. 
 
 Thus she caught eagerly at the chance 
 afforded her of a totally new experience, 
 of the strange environments of a delicious 
 foreign existence, such as in the iuture she 
 miqrht never have the chance of realisinfy 
 under similar conditions. Joyous anticipa- 
 tion seemed to have taken possession of her 
 mind with a sudden riisli, forcibly expelling 
 all j)revious sensations. 
 
 Bertram Devereux was chagrined at the 
 change of programme. Coldly self-pos- 
 sessed as usual, however, he betrayed not, 
 by word or manner, his real fec^ling on the 
 subject. 
 
 'Why don't you go home to England 
 while you are about it, Mrs. Devereux.'*' he 
 asked. ' The time would not b(; so much 
 longer. You have friends and relations 
 there, and 1 should be delighted to give you 
 introductions to .some of mine.' 
 
 ' \i.^\\ are indeed most kind,' said the un- 
 suspecting matron, cordially gralehil ; 'but a 
 voyage to I'.ngland is too serious a matter to 
 be undertak«,'n lightly. We are doing great
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 199 
 
 things in going to New Zealand and Mel- 
 bourne. Nothing would induce me to go a 
 step farther, or to stay away more than three 
 or four months at the outside.' 
 
 ' I feel certain that your daughter would 
 enjoy the European travel. It would be new 
 life to her, and would even benefit you, after 
 your many anxieties,' continued the tempter 
 suavely. ' There'll be nothing to do here or 
 to see to for a couple of years, so Gateward 
 says. You could spare the time well.' 
 
 'You seem very anxious to get rid of us,' 
 said the younger lady, with a pout. ' Some 
 people will think six months a long time to 
 miss us from Corindah.' 
 
 ' Can you think / shall not miss you ? ' 
 returned he, with a sudden change of tone 
 and expression which thrilled her in a man- 
 ner for which she could not account, as he 
 bent his searching, steadfast gaze upon her. 
 ' But you ought to see the " kingdoms of the 
 world and the glory of them " now that you 
 have the opportunity. I should follow you, 
 mentally, all the way.' 
 
 Here one of his rare smiles lit up his tace, 
 as he gazed at her with the tenderness one
 
 200 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 bestows on a child ; and again her eyes sank 
 under his, while a faint iliish tinged her snow- 
 fair cheek. 
 
 ' Mother and I cannot make up our minds 
 to such an expedition as going to England 
 all at once,' she replied slowly. ' We require 
 to be educated up to it. Wait until we return 
 from New Zealand, then we will fold our 
 wings, and perhaps make ready for a longer 
 night.' 
 
 • " Would 1 were, sweet bird, like thee ! " ' 
 hummed Mr. Devereux, as he gracefully de- 
 clined further controversy. ' Some of these 
 days you will awake to your privileges, I 
 suppose. We all develop by unmarked 
 changes, none the less surely, however, as 
 fate decrees.' 
 
 Mrs. Devereux grew, indeed, half afraid of 
 the momentous enterprise on w^hich she was 
 about to enter. Supported, however, by her 
 daughter, she kept up to the task of packing 
 and providing for departure. This eventually 
 took the form of being driven l<> iIk- nearest 
 railway terminus, a short day's journey, and 
 being deposited in a first-class carriage, with 
 all their effects in the brake-van, carefully
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 201 
 
 labelled. The next morninsf saw them in 
 Sydney, the Sea-Queen of the South, some- 
 what nervously excited at being so far from 
 Corindah, so immeasurably removed from 
 their ordinary life. 
 
 'After all,' cried Pollie, as they sat in the 
 balcony of their hotel after breakfast, and 
 gazed over the matchless sea-lake, gay with 
 boats of every size and shape, and the 
 argosies of all lands, while beyond lay the 
 grand eternal mystery of ocean, guarded only 
 by the grim sandstone portals, against which 
 so many ages of tidal force have foamed and 
 raged — ' after all we make too much of 
 leaving home for a few months' travel. What 
 wonders and miracles stay-at-home people 
 miss ! What human limpets they are ; and 
 how narrow are their paths to enjoyment ! "I 
 feel as if I were in Paradise, in Paradise," ' 
 she warbled. ' Oh, what a change from our 
 dear old monotonous Corindah ! ' 
 
 ' Home is very sweet after all,' said the 
 elder woman, ' though I enjoy this lovely sea- 
 view. But, my darling, you frighten me by 
 these expressions of wild delight. It cannot 
 be good for any one to revel in pleasure, the
 
 202 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 mere luxurious sensation of chanci^e of scene, 
 so intensely, so passionately as you do. Such 
 feelinofs are unsafe for women. You should 
 moderate them, or evil may come to you 
 from these very unchecked emotions.' 
 
 ' My darling old mother. I am positively 
 shiverinq' with dclip^ht ; but why should this 
 or any other natural impulse be wrong ? 
 Surely we are given these feelings, like the 
 rest of our nature, for wise reasons } Like 
 speech, laughter, thought, they are unutter- 
 able mercies, to be reasonably used and 
 economised. lUiL I see your meaning, and 1 
 will guard my emotions a little. I must do 
 so when I get to the hot springs Tulen, or I 
 shall be plunging into hot water in mistake 
 for te[jid. Fancy a heroine of romance boiled 
 alive ! ' 
 
 ' Don't talk of il. my darling,' said Mrs. 
 Devereux, with a shudder. ' Reallv, don't 
 y(ni think Melbcjurne will be quite far encnigh, 
 and ver\- j^leasant at this time of year.'^ We 
 might leave New Zealand till .another lime' 
 ' Not for worlds,' said the steadfast ilamstl. 
 I waul to get a little nearer to the pole. I 
 shall feel like an Arctic t-xplorer.'
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 203 
 
 The pleasures of the metropoHs, doubly 
 sweet after a lengthened absence, had been 
 sipped for a fortnight, when a breezy morn 
 saw the ladies of Corindah steaming out of 
 the harbour on board the Cathay, a mag- 
 nificent sea - monster of the P. and O. 
 persuasion, containing all kinds of delicious 
 foreign novelties, social and material. 
 
 ' Mother, I don't think I can have been 
 really alive before,' exclaimed Pollie, as 
 they walked down the splendid flush deck. 
 ' I suppose I was living, but I must have 
 been in a state of torpor, with a few 
 mechanical senses feebly revolving, as it 
 were. Isn't this unutterably lovely — quite 
 an eastern fairy-tale in action ? Look at 
 those splendidly ugly Seedees in the engine- 
 room, ghouls and afreets every one ; besides, 
 even the lascars — what classic profiles and 
 lithe, graceful shapes they have ! 1 feel in 
 love with everybody and everything, down 
 to the Chinese waiters in spotless white." 
 
 When the heads were cleared, and the 
 strong north-easter sent the Cathay flying 
 south at the rate of fifteen knots per hour, 
 the motion was increased and perhaps com-
 
 204 THE CROOKED STICK chap, 
 
 plicated, whereupon an entirely new class 
 of sensations succeeded those of rapturous 
 delight in Pollie's case, in consequence of 
 which a hasty descent into the cabin was 
 rendered necessary. 
 
 The mornino-, however, broui^ht smoother 
 seas and a less urgent breath from yEolus. 
 The naturally strong constitution of the girl 
 triumphed over temporary via/aisc, and soon 
 she was enabled to sit upon deck and enjoy 
 the brilliant and wondrous succession of sea 
 and shore and sky pageants unrolled before 
 her. 
 
 A full complement of [passengers, bound 
 to and from all parts of the world, had 
 been received on board, so that Pollie's 
 observant eye and sympathetic mind had 
 full employment as the long rows of chairs 
 became gradually filled. People for India, 
 Z'id Ceylon ; home - returning officers and 
 civilians having exhausted their furlough ; 
 globe-trotters who had traversed the Aus- 
 tralian W(jrld from 1 ).m lo Heershcba and 
 found all barn.'n, or 'not half a bad place,' 
 according U) the state of their living or their 
 rece[jtion in clubs and C(Jteries ; home-return-
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 205 
 
 ing Australians, visiting Europe for the first 
 time in their lives, or after many years ; 
 mere intercolonial voyagers like themselves ; 
 a successful gold-digger or two, treating 
 themselves to first-class passages, plain of 
 aspect, but reserved and correct of manner, 
 as such men generally are, whatever may be 
 said to the contrary by superficial scribes. 
 After Pollie had got over her astonished 
 delight at the Arabian Nights portion of the 
 ship, she found a new world of interest and 
 romance opening before her eyes in the 
 Anglo-Saxon section comprising the first- 
 class passengers. This was not lessened in 
 any way when, lunch being announced, she 
 found her mother and herself placed in seats 
 of honour on the right hand of His Majesty 
 the Captain — such being his royal command 
 — while the wife of an eminent Indian civilian 
 looked indignantly and incredulously at them 
 from the opposite side of the table. 
 
 It had leaked out through a Sydney friend 
 of Captain Belmont's that this was tkc Mrs. 
 Devereux of Corindah and her daughter, who 
 had taken their passages in the Cathay en 
 route to New Zealand, persons of fabulous
 
 2o6 THE CROOKED STICK cmap. 
 
 wealth, orirl sole heiress, could not he worth 
 less than a hundred thousand, besides free- 
 hold property, and so on. Now Pollie was 
 unquestionably the belle of the ship, and 
 persons of prepossessing appearance were 
 not scarce either; but the slight paleness 
 and languor produced by her unwonted 
 sensations had given her haughty beauty a 
 tinge of softness which, when she issued from 
 her cabin, made her positively irresistible. 
 So the captain, an experienced but suscep- 
 tible bachelor, had avowed with many nautical 
 asseverations, and thereupon directed the 
 purser, a most distinguished individual in 
 uniform, whom Pollie took to b(^ an admiral 
 at least, to induct them into \\\v i)]ace of 
 honour. 
 
 When a glass of claret and Selters-water, 
 insisted upon by the ca[)tain as a medical 
 necessity, and som(! slight refection from the 
 luxuriously appointed table had revi\cd the 
 spirits of both ladies, Pollie was enabkxl to 
 realise her p(jsition. Ibrc was she, seated 
 almost upon the dais in jjoint of social 
 elevation, above the wives and daughters 
 of ilic mih'lar)-, civil, and mercantile swells,
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION . 207 
 
 palpably receiving the most assiduous at- 
 tention from the acknowledged autocrat of 
 their monde — of that loftiest, most resistless 
 of despots, that uncrowned king, the captain 
 of a crack ocean steamer on board his own 
 ship. 
 
 Besides his dazzling and unquestioned 
 superiority, Captain Belmont was a handsome, 
 striking-looking man. Courteous, polished 
 even in manner, he had the eagle eye, the 
 air of resolute command, with which years 
 of unquestioned authority invest the sea- 
 king. Prompt, watchful, fearless, scorning 
 sleep or fatigue when danger menaced, the 
 arbiter of freedom or imprisonment within 
 his own realm, the guardian of every life 
 so confidently entrusted to his care — where 
 is the man who to the maiden's heart, during: 
 the long reveries of a sea voyage, so amply 
 fills the character of a hero of romance as the 
 captain ? Who has not marked his influence 
 in danger's darkest hour, when the moaning 
 wind, rising fast to the shriek of the tempest, 
 the lurid sky, the labouring bark, and 'the 
 remorseless dash of billows,' all speak to 
 the fear-stricken crowd of dread endings, of
 
 2o8 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 wreck in mid-ocean? In such an hour how 
 does every eye turn to the calm, resolute 
 seaman, who directs every act. who foresees 
 the need of every rope that is drawn, of 
 every turn of the helm! How does every 
 listener hang upon his words luid dwell upon 
 his lightest syllable of hope ! 
 
 Has no one seen the grateful company of 
 passengers when land was reached, and, as 
 they deemed, through his skill and vigilance 
 those lives were saved which, in the hour of 
 deadly peril, he held in the hollow of his hand 
 — gather around the captain to express such 
 words of urateiul confidence as are seldom 
 yielded to man, the women tearful, the men 
 pressing to shake his hand with hcMicst 
 friendliness? Such a meeting took place, 
 after a dangerous voyage, in honour of one 
 who for twenty years had worthiK home 
 the name of being one of Hritain's Ijest and 
 boldest seamen. And the impression on the 
 mind ol one c:y(:-witni'ss was nexcr (.llaccd. 
 
 ll was, therefore, a new and intoxicating 
 position in which Miss Pollii^ Devercux 
 found herself The acknowledged object of 
 respectful adnu'ralioii to this nspk lulrntly
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 209 
 
 heroic character, and on equal terms with 
 all the other potentates, from the first officer 
 — a magnificent personage, and second only 
 to the captain in importance — while the rank 
 and file of passengers stood aloof in timid 
 or cynical survey of the damsel whom the 
 Ahasuerus of the hour delighted to honour. 
 
 Though partially awed by the eminence 
 of their position, Mrs. Devereux, who had 
 been accustomed in her time to much of 
 respect and consideration, saw nothing very 
 unusual in their promotion. Pollie herself 
 was charmed to find herself on equal con- 
 versational terms with such an autocrat. 
 With girlish eagerness she pressed him to 
 tell her of the dangers he had braved and 
 the wonders he had seen. He, nothing loath, 
 produced from time to time, in temptingly 
 small quantities, precious reminiscences of 
 cyclones in the China seas, pirate schooners 
 in the Spanish Main, slavers in Sierra 
 Leone — for he had been in the navy — 
 opium clippers, Chinese mail-boats taken 
 by mutineers and never heard of after, 
 wreck and fire, even all kinds of peril by 
 
 sea and land in which he had borne a 
 
 p
 
 2IO THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 part ; so that Pollie or any other damsel 
 might be i)ardoned for feehng a tem- 
 porary conviction that sucli a man had 
 Cfone throufrh adventures transcendinof jn 
 interest those of the Hvcs of a hundred 
 mere landsmen — that, were the hero of 
 her choice a sailor, she would gladly wear 
 out her life in accompanying him in his 
 voyages. 
 
 The next day was Sunday. According 
 to custom, the lascar crew turned out 
 gorgeous in crimson-and-gold scarfs, spot- 
 less white robes, and embroidered lurbans, 
 very different from their dingy working garb. 
 After breakfast, when the captain in full uni- 
 form passed close between the double rank, 
 with the air of Caliph I laroun Al-Raschid, 
 the men lowly salaaming as if thankful not 
 lo be doomed to death on that occasion, it 
 was a reproduction in the romantic girl's 
 brain of yet another chapter in the rich 
 traditif)nal glory of the past. I'lven the 
 Secdees gambolled uneoulhly in strange 
 gaudy raiiiKMit, looking lik(; slaves who had 
 f(nmd an opulent and indulgent master. 
 The while Pollie sal in great state on a
 
 vii OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 211 
 
 cane lounge of honour, with a cushion 
 under her feet and a parasol like the 
 Oueen of Sheba's. 
 
 Unfortunately for the permanent enjoy- 
 ment of these dreamy delights, the Cathay 
 drove through ' The Rip,' at the entrance to 
 the vast haven at the farther end of which 
 Melbourne commences, on the morning of 
 the third day. A short railway transit saw 
 them deposited at the Esplanade Hotel, 
 where an extended, though not, critically 
 speaking, picturesque sea-view was afforded 
 to them. 
 
 Captain Belmont had, with the dash and 
 rapidity which characterise the nautical 
 admirer, obtained Mrs. Devereux' consent to 
 join ' a theatre party ' which he had organised. 
 As it happened, an actor of world-wide repu- 
 tation was performing a favourite melodrama 
 of his own composition. This was a chance, 
 he speciously urged, which Miss Devereux 
 should not be suffered to miss. The promise 
 was made. The captain arrived in due time 
 and escorted them to the Theatre Royal, 
 where one more process of art-magic was 
 added to Pollie's collection.
 
 212 lllE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 As their open carriage rolled through the 
 wide, straight streets, in which long rows 
 of lamps glittered on either side, or faded 
 star-like in the far distance, they were im- 
 pressed with the utterly different expression 
 of Melbourne from that of their own fair city 
 by the sea. 
 
 'What a wonderful place!' said Pollie, 
 gazing up the great street which contains all 
 the pleasures and palaces, and is nightly 
 crowded with their votaries. ' I low the lamps 
 glow and shimmer! What a vast size and 
 almost sombre uniformity in the buildings 
 which line the streets ! There is something 
 weird, too, in th(,' electric liofhts which create a 
 pale daylight around those endless colonnades. 
 I feel as if I liad been transported to some 
 city raised by the wand of an enchanter,' 
 
 ' Not unlike a little sorcery,' said one of 
 the party, 'when you come to think. There 
 were gum-trees and blacks here "in full blast" 
 half a century ago. Here we are at the 
 Royal.' 
 
 It was a comman<l night. Tiie repre- 
 sentative of I I<r M.ijcsty hatl signified his 
 intention of being present. ()n<; (jf the best
 
 vii OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 213 
 
 boxes in the dress-circle — but two distant 
 from the vice-regal compartment — had been 
 secured by the forecasting captain. The 
 house was crammed. As the popular 
 governor and his party entered, the great 
 assemblage rose like one man to the air of 
 the National Anthem, which aroused Pollie 
 to a burst of loyal enthusiasm. 
 
 ' It always brings the tears into my eyes,' 
 she said ; ' it looks foolish, but I cannot help 
 it. Something in the old tune and the rever- 
 ence with which our people always greet it 
 stirs my very heart's core. I suppose these 
 feelings are hereditary.' 
 
 ' The colonies are wonderfully loyal,' said 
 the captain. ' I never saw anything like it. 
 You are more English than the English 
 themselves.' 
 
 ' I hope we shall always remain so,' said 
 Mrs. Devereux, ' though I believe at home 
 they think we must be essentially different. 
 But the curtain rises. Now, Pollie!' 
 
 It follows, as a thing of course, that the 
 whole party, and more particularly Pollie, 
 with her sensitive nature, appreciative as well 
 of the lightest touches of humour as the deeper
 
 214 THE CROOKED STICK' chap. 
 
 tones of pathos, were charmed \vii1i the play, 
 which had enthralled London nightly for a 
 whole year. 
 
 When, after the finale, the party adjourned 
 to the carefully appointed supper which the 
 gallant captain had insisted upon providing 
 — when, amid the popping of champagne 
 corks, a ilow of pleasant criticism and enjoy- 
 able badinage went round — Pollie realised 
 that she was tasting one of those highly 
 flavoured, almost forbidden pleasures of life 
 which she had read of, but hardly dared to 
 think of sharing. 
 
 'This sort of thing is too good to be true,' 
 she replied to Captain Belmont, who was ex- 
 pressing his general and particular satisfaction 
 with 'the way things had gone off.' 'There 
 is so much enjoyment that it must be a little 
 sinful. Don't you think so ^ I shall wake 
 to-morrow to fin 1 it all a dream ; or mother 
 will decide that I am never to go to a theatre 
 party again.' 
 
 The captain murmured that all manner of 
 delights — the joys that embellish e.xistence — 
 were in lier power. .Shi; had ])iit to speak 
 the w(jrd, doubtless, and slaves in scores
 
 VII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 215 
 
 would be at her command, himself among the 
 number, only too happy to administer to her 
 slightest wish now and for his whole life after. 
 Here the captain's deep voice faltered, and 
 his expressive eyes, which had done only too 
 much execution in their day, were fixed on 
 hers with an ardent, well-nigh magnetic gaze. 
 The girl trembled involuntarily for a moment, 
 and then laughed lighdy, as she replied, ' Is 
 that out of a play. Captain Belmont? I think 
 I have heard it somewhere before. But I 
 feel as if we all belonged to the opera, and 
 that even compliments of that sort chime in 
 with our condition in life.' 
 
 The captain's expression changed to one 
 almost gravely paternal as he bowed and 
 trusted she might never meet in after life with 
 friends less sincere than those who would so 
 deeply regret her departure from the Cathay. 
 Then, as Mrs. Devereux made the slightlyper- 
 ceptible movement which defined the limit of 
 the symposium, they joined the retreat, and 
 the captain surrendered whatever illusion he 
 may have cherished concerning his too 
 charming passenger.
 
 ciiAi'ri-:R \iii 
 
 After the splendour and distinction of the 
 Cathay, the voyage to New Zeahmd was a 
 tame affair, voted so even by Mrs. Devereux. 
 Both ladies were heartily glad when the 
 wooded heights of the Britain of the South 
 rose from the undcrw^irld, and they ad- 
 dressed themselves to the great question 
 of disembarkation with (earnestness. 
 
 Of their stay in the land of the Maori and 
 of their enjoyment of the daily supply of 
 delights and wonders, il were superfluous to 
 l<:ll ; of Pollie's reverential atlmiration for the 
 first Rangatira whom she encountered — a 
 grizzled, war-worn chief who had louglu 
 stubbornly against us at the (iaK; I'.ih, and 
 had in his day killed (and eaten) many a 
 tribal foe. Upon lln- biiliianl venlun- ol the 
 pasture refreshed by the pentnnial moisture
 
 CHAP. VIII THE CROOKED STICK 217 
 
 of a sea-girdled isle, the hawthorn hedges, 
 the roadside ditches, the old-world English 
 look of so many things and people, she was 
 never tired of expatiating. The people, the 
 scenery, the climate, and the soil were new. 
 The forests of strange glossy-leaved trees, of 
 noble pines, of clinging parasites with crimson 
 blossoms, held neither bird, nor beast, nor 
 leaf, nor flower akin to those of the Australian 
 continent. 
 
 ' What a wonderful region ! So near to 
 us — a few days' voyage only — and yet so un- 
 like. And what a sheep country ! No dingoes, 
 no eagles, no snakes, no crows ! This last is 
 simply incredible. Fancy a country without 
 crows ! There must be something wrong 
 about it. What would Mr. Gateward say? 
 And such grass! If we only could have 
 "travelled" over here in the drought! It 
 seems hard that Providence devoted all the 
 intervening distance to water. Had it been 
 dry land, it would have been worth all the 
 rest of our continent.' 
 
 ' " The earth is the Lord's and the fulness 
 thereof," my darling,' said the mother. ' I 
 don't like to hear you talk lightly about
 
 2i8 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 such tliiiiirs. Seas and lands were doubtless 
 arranged as they are for some wise purpose.' 
 
 ' I never meant to be irreverent, my dearest. 
 I was only thinking what a pity this fine south 
 latitude region should be useless. Only fancy, 
 except this little New Zealand dot, there is 
 no habitable land between us and the South 
 Pole. Oh ! I forgot the Crozets — those 
 islands where the ship was wrecked, and the 
 passengers were cast away nearly twelve 
 months. All their hair turned white as fleeces. 
 So complexion is only a matter of latitude 
 after all.' 
 
 Their time was all too short when the 
 route was again given, and the party with 
 which they had amalgamated proceeded by 
 tourist stages to the dream-region of Roto- 
 mahana. 
 
 Of the glories and triumphs of that wonder- 
 land who shall te-11 adecjuately, who depict 
 with a tithe of the fresh brilliant colouring 
 that Nature — earliest of Royal Academicians 
 — has invented ? 
 
 ' 1 will never go back,' ([uolh Pollie ; 'here 
 I will li\c and die. 1 w ill become a guide, 
 like Maori Kate here — magnificent creature
 
 vm OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 219 
 
 that she is ! I will never be proud of civilisa- 
 tion again. What do we get by it forsooth ? 
 Headaches, neuralgia, nervous systems, tooth- 
 aches, and shortened lives. These noble 
 Maoris never have headaches, except from 
 too much rum — which is only a transient, not 
 a chronic ailment — but unfailing appetite, 
 health, strength and activity ; hair that doesn't 
 come out or turn bald and grey ; teeth that 
 serve to reduce food and not to enrich dentists. 
 I say we are manifestly inferior to this 
 noble people. Why do we want to conquer 
 them or convert them ? ' 
 
 'My darling,' said Mrs. Devereux, 'this 
 air is too stimulating ; I am afraid you are 
 going out of your mind. It will never do for 
 you to go on in England like this. Fancy 
 what your father's family would think ! ' 
 
 ' I shall sober down before we take our 
 European tour,' answered the young lady. ' I 
 shall have something to talk about, though, 
 shan't I '^ And we must go through Paris ; I 
 don't want to be "bonneted" metaphorically 
 (that's rather neat, dear, between ourselves) 
 because my headgear is not up to the fashion- 
 able cousins' standard. But I think I could
 
 220 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 hold my own. I shrill bci^in by being very 
 simple, ;uul having things explained to me 
 that I have known all my life ; then dawn on 
 them by degrees.' 
 
 ' My darling, you only need to be your 
 own dear, sweet self, and be assured you 
 will be able to hold your own with any 
 people you arc likely to meet at home or 
 abroad. I don't wish my pet to affect any- 
 thing, either below or above her. You have 
 great natural gifts, a fairly good education, 
 and what experience you are deficient in 
 will always be made up by your unusual 
 (luickness of comprehensi(Mi. That is )c)ur 
 old mother's honest opinion, and she would 
 not deceive you for the world.' 
 
 ' Antl I cart.' not two straws for anybody 
 else in comparison, you dear old darling. 
 You an- ever so clever too — if you were 
 not so unreasonably diffident about yourself. 
 1 lowever, I will educate you when we reach 
 Rngland. N'ou'll see the firm of " Pollie and 
 Mother" will achieve distinction." 
 
 The summer joys pa.ssed all tof) f]uickly. 
 Why cannot oik; remain in fairyland.'' 
 I*< rhajjs as the years rolietl on we should
 
 viii OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 221 
 
 hear one morning- a dismal summons. The 
 faces of our gay companions would undergo 
 a terrible alteration. The dread messenger 
 had arrived who was to exact ' the teind 
 for hell.' Thus it ran in the old ballad. 
 So True Thomas found it. The fairy 
 flowers withered, the fay faces changed. 
 All was pale, awesome. The day of pay- 
 ment for pleasure unstinted and unhallowed 
 joys had arrived. 
 
 There is always a day of reckoning, a 
 reactionary change from pleasant sojourns. 
 True Thomas lies beneath the ' knowe ' at 
 Ercildoune. Our modern fairies are clad in 
 tulle and tarlatan ; are seen beneath electric 
 lights. Old faiths are crumbling. They lie 
 — like ' ancient thrones ' — in the workrooms 
 of scientists and positivists. Yet still is 
 there a flavour of the old-world belief which 
 clings about us. Remorse and regret, 
 passion and despair, survive. And even as 
 we return from the land of pleasure along 
 paths of duty, the refrain sounds sadly in 
 our ears that all earth's joys are fleeting ; 
 that the ocean of eternity must be the end 
 of life's bark ; that its tideless waves may
 
 222 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ever be heard, ileeply dirgeful, in the 
 intervals of vanitv and madness. 
 
 So, when the first AustraHan winter 
 month — that of May — found the travellers 
 again en route for Corindah, where every- 
 thing bade fair to be as quiet and peaceful 
 as on the day they left, Pollie's first feeling 
 was one of indefinable regret. ' I could 
 almost wish we IkuI never left home, mother,' 
 she said ; ' everything will look so quiet and 
 dull lill we regain our eyesight. It looks 
 mean and ungrateful to the dear old place 
 and our friends to s^o back to them as a 
 kind of pis aller after having exhausted 
 the pleasures of vagabondising. I suppose 
 we shall drop into our old sleepy ways 
 again by degrees. We are such creatures 
 of habit.' 
 
 ' For my part, 1 am thankful to get back,' 
 said Mrs. Devereux. 'My dear garden will 
 \ni looking so well, as I see thai tlu'\- have 
 had r.iin. I c|uite pine for a little needle- 
 work, too, 1 miss my steady pursuits, I 
 must say.' 
 
 'Garden!' said Pollie disdainfully; 'a 
 pretty garden it will look after the bright
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 223 
 
 rata and laurel thickets, the ancient groves 
 of totara and kauri, the ferny dells of 
 Waitaki ! It seems like growing mustard 
 and cress upon a yard of damp flannel, as I 
 used to do in my childhood. However, 
 as I said before, our tastes will recover 
 themselves I hope.' 
 
 . • • « « 
 
 Corindah once more. Again the endless 
 grey-green plains — the sand-hills — the myall 
 — the mogil — the familiar, not ungraceful, 
 but sparse and monotonous woodland — the 
 wire fences stretching for scores of miles on 
 every side — the gates all of the same pattern 
 — the hundreds of thousands of merino sheep, 
 each unit undistinguishable from another 
 save by the eye of experience — the blue 
 heaven — the mirage — the boundary riders — 
 the men — the horses — the collie dogs — all 
 moving in unvarying grooves, as if they had 
 never done anything else since the travellers 
 departed, and were incapable of change, 
 emotion, or alteration. 
 
 However, as the buggy from the station 
 drove through the well - remembered gate, 
 Harold Atherstone, with Bertram and Mr.
 
 224 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 Gatcward, were there to meet the home- 
 returning travellers. The evident pleasure 
 in each face touched the girl's heart, and 
 she pressed the gnarled hand of the overseer 
 with considerably more cordiality than she 
 was in the habit of putting into her greetings, 
 as she replied to the general expression of 
 welcome, 
 
 ' Thought you'd followed my advice and 
 taken the New Zealand mail-steamer for 
 I'lngland,' said Mr. Devereu.x, with his usual 
 calmness of intonation, though a llush on his 
 ordinarily pale cheek betrayed suppressed 
 emotion. ' I should have done so in your 
 case I know.' 
 
 ' I daresay they have only come home to 
 pack now,' said Mandd. 'A taste for travel, 
 once acquired, is never shaken off — by women 
 at any rate. The West Logan must look 
 like the Soudan after your late ex])eriences.' 
 
 'You are all very unkind,' said Pollie ; 
 'that is, exccjjt Mr. (iateward, who is too 
 glad to see us to make rucK: speeches. 1 )oiri 
 we enjoy coming home; like other jjeople with 
 hearts,-* We are not going awa\- for years, 
 are we, mother } '
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 225 
 
 * Not if my wishes are consulted, my 
 dearest,' said Mrs. Devereux, stretching her 
 neck to look over the garden paling. ' I 
 want rest, and time to think my own thoughts 
 and enjoy a little quiet life again.' 
 
 ' You have come to the right " shop " for 
 that, as I heard one of the boundary riders 
 say to-day, my dear Mrs. Devereux,' said 
 Bertram. 'Anything more uniform, not to 
 say monotonous, than our lives here in your 
 absence cannot be imagined. Nothing ever 
 happens here, now that the excitement of the 
 drought is over.' 
 
 ' I heard some news by telegram before I 
 came over,' said Harold, 'which is likely to 
 cause a stir in the district. It's rather bad of 
 its sort, and may lead to worse results even.' 
 
 ' l.liank God for it, anyhow ! ' said Ber- 
 tram ; ' anything is better than the dead level 
 of dulness we have lately been reduced to. 
 What is it ? ' 
 
 The other man looked grave. ' It's not 
 a matter to be lightly treated. Two bush- 
 rangers are "out." They shot dead one of 
 the escort troopers from Denman Gaol to 
 Berrima, overpowered the others, and are 
 
 Q
 
 226 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 now at larc^c at no great distance from 
 Wannonl)ah.' 
 
 ' Oh ! ' said I\Trs, Devercux, turning pale, 
 • I am so sorry. Not that I feel frightened ; 
 but now tliat they have shed blood, and must 
 suffer if taken, they are desperate men, and 
 will scarcely be taken alive. Do you know 
 their names } ' 
 
 ' I'he younger man is Billy Mossthornc ; 
 as for the other, I don't know. He is an old 
 offender. The police are, of course, all over 
 the district. Sergeant Heme passed I\Iaroo- 
 bil in an old slouched hat and plain clothes, 
 bill onv. (jf the men knew him and lold me. 
 Me will run them down if any one can. 
 Rvery tr()o[)er in the North-West is out.' 
 
 ' Hut wh.it chance in a country like this 
 will he have?' said Bertram. ' The outlaws 
 are miles away by this time, and can easily 
 cross the border iiUo Queensland. I'd take 
 short odds they are never seen again.' 
 
 Mr. AthcTstont; smiled. ' 1 Ic has the 
 chance of the sleulhdiuund on the trail of the 
 deer. The police force of this colony is well 
 organised. Mo.ssthorne is a horseman, a 
 bushman, .and a dare-devil not (sisily matched :
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 227 
 
 but there are as good men as he on his 
 track.' 
 
 ' If the brutes would only come into the 
 open,' said Bertram, with his quiet sneer, 'one 
 would be saved the bother of thinking about 
 them. They haven't pluck enough for that, 
 I expect.' 
 
 'To do them justice,' replied Atherstone, 
 ' they don't lack the old English virtue of 
 bulldog courage, as any one will find that 
 meets them under fire. Personally, I should 
 not be grieved if they got away to the " Never 
 Never country," and were not heard of again. 
 Mossthorne worked for me once. He was a 
 fine manly young fellow, and I have always 
 regretted deeply that he got into bad com- 
 pany and worse ways. In the front of a line 
 regiment or on a quarter-deck, Billy would 
 have shown what stuff he was made of, and 
 his country might have been proud of him.' 
 
 ' I have no sympathy with such ruffians, 
 old or young,' said Devereux. ' The sooner 
 they are hanged or shot the better, and I 
 should like to have the chance of putting a 
 bullet into either of them.' 
 
 ' I daresay I shall shoot as straight as any
 
 228 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 one else if ii comes to a scrimmage,' said the 
 other ; ' but I can't help mourninor over a 
 good man spoiled. That they will not be 
 taken alive, we may make tulerably sure.' 
 
 At the commencement of the conversation 
 Mrs. Devereux had turned pale. The sad 
 memories of the past were awakened. She 
 took the first opportunity of retiring with her 
 daughter, leaving the young men to their 
 argument. 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 'And what have you done with yourself 
 all the time?' said Pollie to her cousin, as 
 they sat at breakfast next morning. ' It 
 does seem so hard to have been shut up 
 here while we were in kairv-land — were we 
 not, mother.-*' she said, ajjpealing to Mrs. 
 Devereux, who sat in her place with rather 
 an abstracted air. 
 
 ' What were you saying, my dear .-* Oh ! 
 )eb, delightful, was it not? I was just 
 thinking that we need not have hurried 
 back. Did you go anywhere, Bertram, or 
 see any society in our absence ? ' 
 
 'I went to I»()urkc. for a fortnight?' he 
 answered, with a smile in which there was
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 229 
 
 more sarcasm than merriment. ' I was 
 afraid to trust myself within the fascination 
 of real civilisation, so I declined Melbourne 
 or Sydney.' 
 
 ' And what did you think of that desert 
 city ? ' inquired Pollie, with mock humility. 
 ' Did Your Royal Highness find anybody fit 
 to talk to ? ' 
 
 ' It struck me as a queer place,' he said. 
 ' You could not expect me to have seen 
 anything like it before. But it wasn't bad in 
 its way. The weather was glorious. The 
 men were better than I expected. Rather 
 fast, perhaps. Their manners lacked repose. 
 They took care no one else should have any, 
 as they kept it up all night most of the time 
 I was there. One young fellow jumped his 
 horse over the hotel bar — a thing I had 
 previously taken to be pure fiction, on the 
 American pattern.' 
 
 ' That's rather old-fashioned bush pleas- 
 antry,' said Pollie ; ' he must have been very 
 young. How did the horse like it.^ ' 
 
 ' I don't know, but he did it cleverly. I 
 expected to see both their necks broken and 
 the smash general ; but all came right by a
 
 230 THE CROOKED STICK cuAr. 
 
 miracle, and the fellow won his bet — twenty 
 pounds. I heard him make il.' 
 
 ' And was that the only style of society 
 you encountered ? ' queried Pollie, with a 
 disdainful and disapproving air. 'You 
 could have enjoyed that at Wannonbah.' 
 
 ' Permit me. I did not enjoy it ; I only 
 observed it. Hut there were really some nice 
 fellows, who had just come over from 
 Queensland — Lord Ilarrowsby's younger 
 brother, and Thoresby, a Suffolk man, 
 whose cousin 1 was {|uartered with once. 
 They had just been investing in a sugar 
 [plantation, and were going to make a fortune 
 in three years. One of the local men asked 
 us all out to his i)lace. Drove four-in-hand, 
 too. We had a famous week of II. I never 
 expected to enjoy it so much. Lived in a 
 really good style.' 
 
 ' W^onderful, when ycni come to think of 
 it,' said the girl saucily, 'that aii)- one should 
 have a decent establishment in Australia! 
 r»ut \()u'll make discoveries 1)\- dcjri-ccs.' 
 
 ' I'm afr.iid son re lauLihin'' at me/ he 
 said gravely. ' I am not of a sangmne 
 disposition, I own. 1 didn't e.xpect anylliiitg
 
 via OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 231 
 
 when I came here. But perhaps I shall 
 have fewer mistakes to retract than if I had 
 been imaginative.' 
 
 ' I am not laughing at you ; indeed, I 
 think you wonderfully wise and prudent for 
 the time you have been out. By and by 
 you will know everything that we do our- 
 selves. But what always entertains me 
 about you recent importations is the mild 
 air of surprise with which you regard the 
 smallest evidence that the men that pre- 
 ceded you, and built up these great cities, 
 this wonderful country, were of much the 
 same birth, breeding, and social status as 
 ourselves.' 
 
 ' But many were not, surely ? That must 
 be admitted.' 
 
 ' The majority were ; the leaders, certainly, 
 in every branch of civilisation : how else 
 would the miraculous progress have been 
 effected ? The rank and file were much like 
 other people — good, bad, and indifferent.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 Once more the old life was resumed at 
 Corindah. Once more the succession of 
 easy tasks and simple pleasures obtained.
 
 2X2 THE CROOKED STICK ciiai. 
 
 The walks by tlic river-side — the rides and 
 drives — the history readings — the French 
 and Italian lessons — the peaceful mornings 
 when tranquil Nature seemed assured against 
 change, disturbance, or decay — the dreamy 
 afternoons — the long, quiet evenings divided 
 between books, music, and an occasional 
 game of whist for Mrs. Devereux's enter- 
 tainment when llarold Atherstone came 
 over. As the weeks cjlided on, Pollie could 
 not believe that she had ever left Corindah, 
 that the voyages, the travel, the strange 
 people and incidents were unrealities, fash- 
 ioned of 'such stuff as dreams are made on.' 
 
 She had resumed her quasi -friendly 
 relations with llerlram Devereux, who 
 apparently had not noticed the alteration 
 of her feelings towards him. Willi his 
 accustomed [)atience he had accepted the 
 position, and merely set himself to overcome 
 her doubts and maidenly scruples. In this 
 attempt his knowledge of the subject assured 
 him that he would ultimately succeed. 
 
 Ilaruld Atherstone certainly came pretty 
 frequently, lie was not a man to be lightly 
 regarded as a ii\al. ' W'hal a stir he would
 
 viii OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 233 
 
 have made in some places that I have known ! ' 
 thought Devereux to himself. ' That grand 
 seignetir air of his, the height, the stalwart 
 frame, his Indian-chief sort of immobility, 
 joined to his consummate skill in all 
 accomplishments of an athletic nature. 
 Here,' he said to himself, with a sardonic 
 smile, ' he is thrown away. The type is 
 more common than with us, and he has the 
 fatal drawback, in the eyes of our prima 
 donna, of too early, too familiar, too brotherly 
 an intimacy. She knows him like a book. 
 With the perverse instinct of her sex, she 
 despises the well-read, dog's-eared volume, 
 full of high thought and purpose, and longs 
 for a newer work — inferior, possibly, as it 
 may be, but with uncut pages. I shall win 
 this game, I foresee, as I win the odd trick 
 at our little whist tournaments — by superior 
 science, even against better cards. Well, 
 what then ? As the husband of the 
 handsomest woman of her year, with 
 Corindah for her ultimate dowry, and a hand- 
 some allowance, I suppose one could live in 
 London. Ah ! would it not be life again ? 
 Not this vegetable existence, which one can
 
 234 THl: CROOKED STICK ciiai-. 
 
 Stand for a y(jar or two, but dull, dismal, 
 a /aire pcur, after a while.' 
 
 Had the intensity of the feeling which 
 Bertram Devereux had reached reacted upon 
 the girl's sensitive organisation ? No altera- 
 tion of manner, or one so trilling that it 
 could hardly be perceived, had taken place. 
 Still, like the swimmer on the smoothly 
 gliding tide which leads to the whirlpool 
 or the rapids, she felt conscious of a hidden 
 force, which became daily more ditficult to 
 analyse or resist. 
 
 Had any one told her, upon the arrival 
 of Bertram Devereux at Corindah, that her 
 heart would eventually be forced to surrender 
 at his summons, the proud beauty would 
 have laughed the [)rophecy to scorn. But 
 now, when with [tensive brow and thoughtful 
 air she searched its recesses, and examined 
 the feelings which held possession of her 
 waking thoughts, she could not deny that 
 the image of the stranger had no rival to 
 fear, no refusal to dreatl, in the lateful hour 
 which would decide two destinies. 
 
 r>ut in the intervals of distrust which 
 disturbed her mind — and there were many —
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 235 
 
 one question invariably asserted prominence, 
 one dark spirit of doubt refused to be laid. 
 She knew that Bertram Devereux had lived 
 much in society in early life ; had been of 
 the haute voUe of the great world both in 
 England and abroad. Was it possible that 
 he should have been a recognised figure in 
 those luxurious, exclusive circles without 
 having given his heart to some one of 
 the fascinating personages which there 
 abounded ? 
 
 Were it so, would it be possible that he 
 had pledged himself, unalterably, irrevocably, 
 to return from Australia and fulfil his promise 
 within a certain time } Englishmen often 
 did this, and when time had altered their 
 ideas, or loosened the bonds which in good 
 faith should have remained inflexible, married 
 some girl that took their fancy in the colonies, 
 and quietly settled down for life in the land 
 of their adoption. But such a lover should 
 not be hers, she told herself. He who for 
 gold or light love forfeited his pledged word 
 was a forsworn coward. She could not for 
 an instant brook the idea of being mentally 
 compared with the former occupant of a
 
 236 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 heart every pulse of which should beat lor 
 her and her alone. She knew that every 
 thought, every aspiration, every fibre of her 
 beine would be blended in ihe existence of 
 her lover. Proud, sensitive, unconsciously 
 exacting, even jealous, the fierce blood she 
 inherited from I>rian Devercux boiled up 
 as she thought of the indignity, the degrada- 
 tion of sharing in such a sense the affections 
 of an\' livinL"' man. She did not rise from 
 her long musing fit on that still, dreamy, 
 silent eve without telling herself, that in the 
 probable case of liertram Devereux declaring 
 himself, h(; shoultl satisfy her fully upon this 
 point, or hand of hers should never clasp his 
 before the altar. 
 
 While the great hope which arises in 
 every human breast was perfecting itself — 
 that flower which blooms so fair, or [)ales and 
 fades untimely, was tlaily ripening, tending to- 
 wards fra"-rance and fruition — the little world 
 of West Logan was a])parently stationary. 
 The vast green prairies were commencing to 
 grow yellow before the warm breezes of I he 
 early summer ; the days wert; lengthening ; 
 the dark-blue gold-fretted nights were shorter;
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 237 
 
 the dawn followed midnight with lesser 
 interval. All things appeared calm and 
 changeless as a summer sea. The stormy 
 ways of evil deeds, crime, and death seemed 
 as improbable as messages from another 
 planet. 
 
 Strangers came and went, but they were 
 principally camp-followers of the great armies 
 of sheep which from time to time, being 
 mobilised for various reasons, marched from 
 one end of the territory to the other, or to 
 the borders of other colonies. But one 
 evening a shabbily-dressed man, on a rough- 
 looking horse, rode into the stable-yard, 
 where he encountered Mr. Gateward, whom 
 he engaged in serious conversation. 
 
 ' Who in the world can that be ? ' asked 
 Bertram irritably, from his seat in the 
 verandah. A book of Rossetti's poems was 
 before him. He had been readino- aloud to 
 his cousin. Her work lay unheeded on the 
 Pembroke table. * Another of those con- 
 founded sheep '' reporters " ! I wish they 
 would stay at home for a time. I am sure 
 Gateward and I are sick of the very sight 
 of travelling sheep.'
 
 238 THE CROOKED STICK 
 
 CHAT. 
 
 'Wait till I lake a peep at him.' said the 
 girl. 'He does not look altogether like a 
 sheep man.' 
 
 Pollie walked to the end of the verandah, 
 and peeping over the lemon hedge which 
 bounded the cf^rden, examined the strancrer 
 with a searching and practised eye. 
 
 • I lis bit and stirriijjs are rusty. He has 
 an old slouched felt hat, and only one spur. 
 He stoops as he sits in his saddle. Mr. 
 Gate ward is looking very serious. What do 
 you make of all that ? ' she said archly, as she 
 came back to her companion. 
 
 'Working overseer — tliiriy or forty 
 thousand sheep — to be at our boundary 
 gate to-night. Wants to go the inner track, 
 when.' Gateward is saving the grass. No 
 wonder he looks serious.' 
 
 ' 1 1 would not be a bad guess if matters 
 ran in their ordinary groove ; but I see 
 signs of a change, with danger signals ahead. 
 That (juiet-looking man is Miles I lenie, one 
 of the smartest sergeants in the jjolice force. 
 lie has been on th(! track of thr two bush- 
 rang(.'rs. 1 saw him two or three years ago, 
 and i don't forget peopK: that interest me.
 
 VIII OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 239 
 
 He is here to get information, or to give 
 some that may be important.' 
 
 ' That man a sergeant of police!' exclaimed 
 Bertram, surprised out of his usual equanimity. 
 ' You must surely be mistaken, or he is a 
 consummate artist in disQ-uise.' 
 
 'It is the man himself,' persisted she. 
 'We Australians have sharp eyes — savage 
 attributes, you know. He has captured many 
 a cattle-stealer, they say, in that unassuming 
 bush attire. There is a good deal of talent 
 among our New South Wales troopers. 
 There was Senior-Constable Ross, who used 
 to be told off to catch sly grog-sellers. His 
 get-up was wonderful. Once, Harold told 
 me, he went as one of a pair of blackfellows, 
 and quite outdid the real aboriginal, secur- 
 ing a conviction too. Go down and see the 
 sergeant. I am uneasy about his errand.'
 
 CliAPTl-R IX 
 
 Before the young man made his way into 
 the stable-yard, PolHe meanwhile retreating 
 to her mother's room, the strancje horseman 
 had hung up his steed to a post and followed 
 Mr. Gateward to the barracks, in the sitting- 
 room of which un[M'etending but useiul ad- 
 junct to the mansion proper Mr, Devereux 
 found ihcm in earnest conclave. They 
 stop[)ed speaking when he entered. The 
 stranger looked searchingly at the young 
 luicrlishman. wluj decided, after encounter- 
 ing the keen grey eye and marking the 
 resolute fic(! and wir)-, athletic frame, that 
 no ordinary nuui was before him. 
 
 Gateward, alter looking round carefully, 
 began in a tonc! of solemnity and mysterious 
 import. '.Mr. I )evereux, this is Sergeant 
 I I< rnc, stationetl at W'arban, but now on
 
 CHAP. IX THE CROOKED STICK 241 
 
 duty out of uniform, for reasons as you'll 
 understand. He's on the track of the men 
 we've heard on.' The stranger saluted in 
 military style, and Bertram instinctively re- 
 turned the courtesy in like form. * And bad 
 news he've heard, I'm afraid,' continued Mr. 
 Gateward. 
 
 'The sergeant will tell us himself,' inter- 
 posed Bertram. ' These bushrangers are in 
 the neighbourhood 'i We heard that before.' 
 
 ' It's a trifle worse than that, sir,' said the 
 disguised man-at-arms, unbuckling a leather 
 belt and placing a navy revolver, previously 
 concealed by his coat, upon the table. ' Unless 
 my information is false — and I have every 
 reason to think otherwise — the pair of them, 
 the Doctor and Billy Mossthorne, will be here 
 to-night.' 
 
 ' Here ! good God ! ' said Bertram. ' Why 
 the deuce should they come here ? Fancy 
 having to fight the scoundrels with ladies in 
 the house ! Can't we meet them and have 
 it out on the road ? ' 
 
 ' It's impossible to say which way they'll 
 come in,' said the sergeant thoughtfully. 
 ' Fellows like them don't travel on roads. 
 
 R
 
 242 THE CROOKED STICK c\\\\\ 
 
 They know every inch of ihc bush Iruni here 
 to the Lachlan, and can go as straight as a 
 blackfellow by night as well as by day. 
 They're hid in the Warrambong scrubs now, 
 it's a good way off, and my men have run 
 them close. 15 ut by hard riding they'll get 
 here by midnight, expecting every one in the 
 [>lace to be sound asleep.' 
 
 ' But what do they want here ? ' 
 
 'It's hard to know what the Doctor 
 wants. lie's one of the bi^o'est scoundrels 
 unhanfred. But what Bill Mossthorne is after 
 is a couple of your best horses, and as much 
 clothes and grub as'll see them across the 
 Queensland border. He was hurt in the 
 scuflle, and walking in his leg-irons for forty- 
 eight hours gave him a terrible shaking. 
 The Doctor had to carry him on his back 
 part of the last da)-, 1 was told." 
 
 'Then we shan't see them unlil ihcy turn 
 uj) here } ' 
 
 ' Not if I'm laid on properly,' said the 
 hunter of men. ' Between twelve and cjne 
 o'clock to-night, if we've luck, they'll drop 
 uxU) as pretty a trajj as ever the)' were in in 
 their lives.'
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 243 
 
 ' The Doctor, as they call that scoundrel 
 — haven't I heard something about him be- 
 fore?' said Bertram musingly. 'It must 
 have been long ago, but I seem to have an 
 indistinct memory concerning him.' 
 
 The two others looked meaningly at 
 each other. Then Mr. Gate ward spoke. 
 
 ' Perhaps it will be as well to keep it from 
 the missis, sir. It might shake her a deal, 
 thinkin' on it. But the Doctor's the man 
 that shot her husband thirteen years ago 
 this very month. The Captain hit him hard 
 the same time, and he's been heard to say 
 he'll leave his mark on Corindah yet' 
 
 Bertram Devereux set his teeth, and a 
 smile, such as men wear in the moment 
 of hard and bitter resolve, passed slowly 
 over his face, while his eyes lightened and 
 gleamed, as if he saw his dearest hope 
 realised. 
 
 ' By God ! you don't tell me so ? ' he said, 
 in so changed a voice that both of the men 
 shifted position and gazed upon him as he 
 spoke. * What an astonishing coincidence ! 
 I wouldn't have missed this night for a 
 fortune. To think, too, that I was so nearly
 
 244 THE CROOKED STICK ciiaj-. 
 
 off lo that back station this morniiiLi', Gate- 
 ward, wasn't I ? And now, sergeant, you 
 are our commandinij officer. You have the 
 carte du pays. What is the order of the 
 day, or rather of the night ? ' 
 
 The sergeant sat himself composedly 
 down on the substantial table which took up 
 the centre of the apartment, and in a business- 
 like tone of calculation and arranq^ement un- 
 folded his plan of action. 
 
 ' You see, I had only one trooper with 
 me,' he said. ' The rest are round Warram- 
 bonii^ Mountains. I sent him with a note to 
 Maroobil. Mr. Atherstone will be here to- 
 night. That will b(; plenty. We don't 
 want a mob round the [)lace. Some one 
 might show out too soon, aiul then they 
 wouldn't come. If tht;y're Kl alone, and 
 come in as 1 say, we'll get them " to rights. " 
 There'll be some close shooting, but they 
 can't get away if we've a rag of luck.' 
 
 'Which way will they attempt to enter?' 
 said l)ertram, lighting a cigarette. ' 1 lere 
 or at the hou.se .'* ' 
 
 ' I'Vom what I was told,' said the sc^rireant, 
 with an air ol s.itisfaclioii, 'they will come to
 
 IX OR FOLLIES PROBATION 245 
 
 the barracks, to this very room, and a better 
 Hne— for us — they couldn't have taken. 
 They know this place and all the ins and 
 outs of the premises well. Their dart is to 
 knock up the storekeeper, Mr. Newman, 
 and make him hand over whatever they 
 want — or will — or the cash - box. They 
 know the back entrance from here to the 
 house.' 
 
 'Which they'll never set foot in,' said 
 Bertram. ' If we don't give a good account 
 of them here, prepared as we shall be when 
 they turn up, we deserve never to pull 
 trigger again.' 
 
 ' I've had a few close brushes with men 
 of their sort,' said Heme, with a grim smile 
 of satisfaction, ' but I don't know that ever 
 I saw a neater thino" than what we're work- 
 ingf now. We've Qrot 'em on toast. You 
 see, sir, what a beautiful room this is ? ' 
 
 Devereux looked round the unadorned 
 apartment with a slight expression of in- 
 quiry. 
 
 ' I mean to be " stuck up in " of course. 
 Don't know that I ever saw the equal of it. 
 They begin in the verandah. We're safe to
 
 246 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 hear their step or voices. It's all dark, of 
 course. They light a match to rouse up 
 Mr. Newman. Thcv know that's his room 
 on the ri<2ht-hand side there. You and 1 
 stand just inside this bed-room, Constable 
 Gray and Mr. Athcrstone about there. 
 The moment ihey light their match, we call 
 on them to surrender in the Queen's name. 
 Mr. Gateward, wlio's l)chind the bale of 
 sheepskins, lights a lantern that stands all 
 ready, so as we can see what we're about, 
 and in a brace of shakes the thinof's 
 over.' 
 
 ' It's quite certain there's no more than 
 two of them, sergeant.'*' said Mr. Gateward. 
 ' You're sure of that, I reckon. Not that we 
 mind much, but it might make a difference.' 
 
 ' There might be a third man. I heard 
 that "Johnny the Pacer" was seen al 
 W'arramijong the other day. lUit he's more 
 in the horse-duffmg line than where there's 
 shooting going on." 
 
 'However, you never know when these 
 fellows will turn out. There's been a warrant 
 out for him these two years.' 
 
 ' We shall be all the better matched,' .said
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 247 
 
 Bertram. ' The more the merrier, as long 
 as we're only man to man. I wonder Ather- 
 stone isn't over yet. I suppose the ladies 
 had better not know anything about the 
 visitors we expect.' 
 
 ' Begging your pardon, sir,' said Gate- 
 ward, with a look of resolve upon his face. 
 ' It will be best to put them on their guard. 
 It would give them a shock if they woke up 
 and heard the shooting. They're neither of 
 them ladies as will scream and faint or act 
 with any foolishness.' 
 
 ' I think Gateward is right,' said the 
 sergeant gravely. ' If they're prepared, de- 
 pend upon it they'll be brave and steady ; 
 ladies mostly are in the real push of danger. 
 And Mrs. Devereux hasn't lived here all 
 these years without knowing about bush- 
 rangers, more's the pity.' 
 
 ' Had reason to know 'em too well,' said 
 the overseer, shaking his head. ' You won't 
 frighten Miss Pollie, sir, and the missus, for, 
 as quiet as she looks, she isn't to say timor- 
 some.' 
 
 ' I hear horses now,' said the young man. 
 ' Atherstone and your trooper, I suppose.
 
 24S THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 If \()ii think it's best for the ladies to know, 
 we will tell them.' 
 
 'And 111 l;o with Gateward and get some- 
 thing to eat,' said the sergeant. ' I've had 
 a long ride, and nothing's passed my lips 
 since sunrise. We shall all want something 
 before the night's over.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 Harold Atherstone rode into the stable- 
 yard, followed by a slight, wiry-looking young 
 fellow in the uniform of the mounted police. 
 I le was mounted upon an upstanding, well- 
 bred bay, and led a saddled roan, the points 
 and condition of which denoted blood, good 
 keep, and regular stabling. » 
 
 * \'ou'll fmd spare stalls or boxes there, 
 constable,' said liertram. ' Charley, the 
 Cfroom, is somewhere about. He'll cfive 
 you a hand to bed down your horses.' 
 
 'This is a cpiccr business, Atherstone,' 
 .said he, when the lrooj)er had departed with 
 lh(; hors(.*s. ' We shall have shar[) shooting 
 if ihise fellows turn up, and I suppose then^'s 
 no doubt about ii.' 
 
 ' It will be the first lime I vwx knew 
 Miles Heme wriMig,* said AtherstoiK', 'if
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 249 
 
 they're not here at the hour he says. I wish 
 to Heaven they had picked Maroobil for their 
 next bit of devilry. However, it can't be 
 helped. It's lucky we were both in the way, 
 and doubly fortunate that we've had timely 
 warnino;.' 
 
 'By Jove! yes,' said the other, 'and I 
 was near as could be going away back this 
 morning. How savage I should have been ! 
 Come into my room and dress. I can tell 
 you all about Heme's arrangements. What 
 a smart fellow he is, and as cool as a 
 cucumber ! ' 
 
 ' If you'd known all the close things I've 
 seen him in, and the arrests he's made, you'd 
 say so,' replied the other. ' He's the show 
 trooper of the North-West. They always 
 detail him when there's anything specially 
 dangerous to be done. He'll be promoted 
 this time if he bags these fellows, and I hope 
 to Heaven he may.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 When the two young men made their 
 appearance in the dining-room, there was 
 but little need for them to speak, 
 
 ' I know there is something dreadful the
 
 250 THE CROOKED STICK cjiap. 
 
 matter,' said Pollie. 'by Harold's ^rave face. 
 I suspected Sergeant 1 lernc didn't turn up 
 here for nothing. Tliat was a trooper and 
 two police horses that came with you, Harold, 
 was it not? I'etter tell us at once. IMother 
 is growing pale with anxiety.' 
 
 ' Do not be afraid for us,' said the widow, 
 with a sad smile. ' I have borne too much 
 sorrow to have room for fear.' 
 
 ' 'Ihe whole miirhtv matter,' said Harold, 
 thinking that he could best describe the 
 affair in the familiar terms which would 
 perhaps divest the intelligence of sudden 
 terror, 'is that Heme has got news of these 
 bushranger fellows. Thinks they might 
 possibly pay Corindah a visit to-night.' 
 
 'Is that all.'*' exclaimed Pollie, her head 
 raised, her face aglow with excilcnuml, while 
 her large bright eyes sparkletl with an ex- 
 pression much mor(' akin lo [)leasurable ex- 
 pectation than fear. ' W h\-, I thought some 
 one was dead — that some terrible, irrevocable 
 accident had happened. And what time will 
 they arrive ? I suppose they won't send in 
 their cards ? ' 
 
 ' My d.irling, do not talk so lightly,' said
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 251 
 
 her mother, whose set, grave expression 
 showed in how different a hght she regarded 
 the news. 'These men have blood upon 
 their hands. More will be shed yet, I fear, 
 and whose it may be we know not.' 
 
 ' We must not be too serious over it either, 
 Mrs. Devereux,' said Atherstone. 'With 
 the preparations we have been able to make 
 and a superior force well armed, the only 
 fear in Heme's mind, I suspect, is that one 
 of their telegraphs may get wind of our plan, 
 and warn them away. About midnight is 
 the time they were likely to be about, if his 
 scouts spoke truly.' 
 
 ' Why, it will be something like the mid- 
 night attack in Wild Sports of tJie West^ 
 said Pollie, ' that I used to devour when I 
 was a tiny girl. Don't you remember, Harold, 
 when the daughter of the house comes in with 
 an apron full of cartridges ? Oh ! I shall be 
 so disappointed if they don't come after all.' 
 
 The young men felt much inclined to laugh 
 at the genuine desire for fight, the keen en- 
 joyment of a probable inelde, which Pollie 
 had evidently inherited with her Milesian 
 blood. But one look at the white face and
 
 252 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 drawn li[)S of Mrs. Dcvcrcux checked them. 
 'The names,' she said, 'have you heard the 
 names .^ ' 
 
 ' One of them is called ' said Bertram. 
 
 anxious to exhibit his knowledge of the affair. 
 
 'Called Mossthorne— William IMossthornc,' 
 interposed 1 larold, with a meaning look at 
 Devereux. ' The other is a stranger. They 
 are not sure whether he is the man they fancy 
 or not. We shall know if he comes one way 
 or the other.' 
 
 Mrs. Devereux looked relieved. Ilcr 
 face had a far-off, dreamy expression, as if 
 she were recalling the old days of sudden 
 misery, of woe unutterable, of hopeless agony, 
 from which she had been so long recovering. 
 Hut for the bright-eyed girl, that now with 
 cacrer face and fearless brow brought back 
 her father's very face to her, she lolil herself 
 that she never would have cared to live. 
 And now, after all these years, the old 
 accursed work was to recommence, with, 
 [K'rhaps, loss of \aliiablc Wiv, wiili enmity 
 and bloodshed c(-'rtainly. .\i their very gates 
 too ; beneath their hitherto inviolate roof-tree. 
 When was it all to end ?
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 253 
 
 However, she felt it incumbent on her as 
 the chatelaine to put a brave face upon the 
 matter. There was not the slightest chance 
 of victory on the part of the outlaws, out- 
 numbered and outmatched as they would be. 
 She therefore exerted herself during the 
 remainder of the meal to appear resolute and 
 steadfast. She even gave advice which her 
 long experience of colonial manners and 
 customs enabled her to offer. 
 
 ' Bertram, above all things, you mustn't 
 be rash,' she said. ' Remember that these 
 are not men to hold cheaply. They are 
 cunning and artful, besides being brave with 
 the desperation of despair. Don't think 
 because vou have been a soldier, that these 
 bush brigands are to be despised. My poor 
 husband paid dearly for that mistake.' 
 
 The young man looked up cheerfully. 
 ' My dear aunt,' he said, ' I don't despise our 
 friends the bush robbers, or whatever they 
 call them. I think them very ugly customers. 
 Some of the shearers we had the row with 
 last year would be truly formidable with 
 arms in their hands. But I am a consistent 
 fatalist in these matters. One man gets
 
 254 THE CROOKED STICK chai-. 
 
 shot ill such an affray ; around another tlic 
 Inillcls rain harmless. If I am fated to drop, 
 I sliall do so, and not otherwise.' 
 
 'And what are luc to do all the time?' 
 inquired Pollie, with an air of disapproval. 
 'Go to bed and sleep .-^ Just as if any one 
 could, with a battle coming- off next door. I 
 suppose we must stay quiet till it is all over .-* 
 What a dreadful thinsf it is to be a woman ! ' 
 
 'Very likely there won't be any engage- 
 ment at all ; it may not come off,' said 
 llarold. 'So 1 would not advise you to lie 
 awake on the chance of it. You may lose 
 your rest for nothing. In fact, the chances 
 are six to four — firstly, that they'll surrender 
 directly they see us prepared to receive them ; 
 secondly, thai they wont come into the 
 barracks at all. They may turn back, like 
 dingoes suspecting a trajx' 
 
 'Pray Heaven it maybe so!' said JMrs. 
 Devereux. ' I am not unwilling to take my 
 share of the risk and loss for the country's 
 gooil. Ihit oh ! if it should turn out to be a 
 f.ilse alarm, how thankful I should be!' 
 
 The evfMiing passed off without muc h to 
 distinguish it h'(jm other evenings, momentous
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 255 
 
 as was the contingent finale. Mrs. Devereux 
 was absent and preoccupied. Pollie was 
 alternately in high spirits or depressed and 
 silent. Atherstone and Bertram talked in a 
 matter-of-fact sort of way about things in 
 general, but made no further allusion to the 
 subject which engrossed their thoughts. 
 
 At ten o'clock the ladies retired, rather to 
 the relief of the young men. Mrs. Devereux 
 did not omit, however, to again urge 
 upon Bertram the necessity of caution and 
 prudence. 
 
 ' I shall not risk my precious person un- 
 wisely,' he said, a little impatiently ; ' but why 
 do you not warn Atherstone here in the same 
 maternal manner ? I know you regard him 
 as an old and valued friend. Is he so much 
 more experienced than I — who have done a 
 little soldiering, you will recollect — or is my 
 life more precious than his in your eyes ? ' 
 
 ' Harold knows very well,' said the widow 
 simply, ' how I feel towards him. But he 
 can take care of himself among these people, 
 whereas you, my dear Bertram, are at a dis- 
 advantage. I do you no injustice when I 
 compare you with my darling husband, who
 
 256 THE CROOKED STICK' chap. 
 
 lost his life, as you may do to-nij^ht, from 
 contempt of his adversary and want of proper 
 caution.' 
 
 ' Harold, you are to take care of yourself, 
 and Bertrani too. Do you hear ? ' called out 
 Pollie, who was in the passage. ' You are to 
 tell him what to do, for of course, being 
 newly arrived, he will know nothing. You 
 mustn't be angry, Bertram. All you Jacka- 
 roos (as the Oueenslanders call you) are the 
 same ; you leave cover and get shot down 
 like an owl in the daylight, for want of the 
 commonest woodcraft. So don't be obstinate, 
 or 1 shall be obliged to come down and stand 
 alongside of you. Good-night! Good-night! 
 That is one apiece.' 
 
 When the young men entered the room at 
 the barracks, they found the sergeant and 
 Mr. (iateward sitting over the fire smoking. 
 The young constable was on guard outside, 
 in cas(! the attack might come off earlier than 
 was anticipated. 
 
 The sergeant, though in an altitude of 
 lu.xurious contentment, was in full uniform, 
 and fully prepareti for sudden action. \\y 
 his side stood a Winchester rille in excellent
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 257 
 
 order, while within reach of his arm was a 
 large -sized navy revolver. Mr. Gate ward 
 had girded on one of the same pattern. 
 
 ' You're all ready, gentlemen, I suppose } ' 
 said the officer. ' Both with revolvers, I see. 
 They're pretty tools, but I prefer my rifle for 
 close range. In an hour more we must put 
 out the lights ; so you'd better light up, and 
 make the most of our smoking time.' 
 
 They did so, and for another hour the four 
 men sat round the fire smoking placidly, occa- 
 sionally exchanging remarks, while moment 
 by moment the hour of mystery and doom 
 grew closer. In spite of the high degree of 
 courage and coolness which characterised 
 every individual who sat in that room, a 
 certain amount of anxious expectation could 
 not be avoided. 
 
 There was no doubt that there would be 
 shootinor. One or two men would ' lose the 
 number of their mess ' — the phrase by which 
 among Englishmen the loss of life is gener- 
 ally indicated — and who would it be ? That 
 was the question. It was not in human 
 nature to avoid the speculation as to whether 
 
 the evil-doers would be laid low, or whether, 
 
 s
 
 258 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 on the contrary, one of themselves, now so 
 instinct witli life and vitality, would not he 
 stretched lifeless upon the unpitying earth. 
 
 Half- past eleven, gentlemen,' said the 
 sergeant, looking at his watch. ' We must 
 take our places, and neither move nor speak 
 until the time comes, Mr. Newman, you 
 had better go to bed ; we will take care to 
 have a word with them before they rouse you 
 u[j. Mr. Atherstone, will you please to take 
 that corner? Mr. Devereu.x. you'll stand 
 here by me. That will give us the chance 
 of first shot, if you care for it. Mr. Gateward, 
 you'll plant behind that bale in the corner — 
 out ot harm's way. W\ you've got to think 
 of is to liL;ht the fat-lamp we leave on the 
 top of the wool-pack, and duck down again. 
 They can't hurt you. Constable Gray will 
 stop outside. As soon as he hears horses 
 coming across the plain, he's to come in here 
 and let us know. 1 Ic's a smart young native, 
 isn't he, .Mr. .Allierslonc .•* lie can traik like 
 a blacklelhnv, he's a ])retty shot, anil at 
 riding and bush work he's a match for Hillv 
 Mossthornc or an\' other moonliLihter that 
 ever shook a clear skin.'
 
 IX OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 259 
 
 'A quiet, manly young fellow, sergeant,' 
 said Atherstone ; ' I had a talk with him com- 
 ino- over. You want more natives in the 
 police to be on equal terms with these down- 
 the- river fellows. They are pretty smart, 
 to do them justice, and it's no use having a 
 man who can't ride to follow them. It's like 
 setting a collie dog after a flying forester 
 buck.' 
 
 ' We are getting some fine young men in 
 the police now,' said the sergeant. ' There's 
 three brothers out of one family I know, born 
 and bred Australians ; two out of the three 
 promoted already and the other safe for it. 
 But the time's getting close ; I hope nothing's 
 happened to the beggars.' 
 
 The sergeant's voice expressed such a 
 pathetic tone of anxiety that the young men 
 could not help laughing. However, all re- 
 lapsed into silence shortly. The hands of 
 the clock in the room pointed towards mid- 
 night. Would they never come } or, in a 
 few moments more, would the deep hush of 
 the autumn night be broken by shots and 
 strange sounds, groans and curses ? 
 
 ' How the moments crawl ! ' said Bertram,
 
 26o THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 lii/hliiii/ ;i match aiul luukini'' at the brass 
 clock on the mantel, the ticUino: of which 
 sounded loud and sonorous out of all propor- 
 tions to its size. 'Only a quarter-past n(nv 
 — it seems half an hour since I looked 
 last.' 
 
 ' 1 1 reminds me of the scene in O/i^ 
 Mortality,' said Atherstone, 'when the fan- 
 atics are waiting for the clock to strike 
 to put IIarr\- Merton to death. Vou remem- 
 ber one of them hears a soimd in the distance 
 which he says is " the wind among the 
 brackens".'' Another declares it to be "the 
 rippling of the brook over the pebbles." 
 Then a third says, "it is the galloping of 
 orse. 
 
 'Harry who?' asked Bertram, rather 
 impatiently. ' I don't remember Walter 
 Scott's characters ver\ clearK. I'lu^v all seem 
 so devilish like one another to me.' 
 
 ' Hush!' said the sergeant, in a low \-oice. 
 ' By — ! here they arc Tlu-y'll come up fast 
 because they know that the dogs will give 
 the alarm. Their dart is to be in the house 
 before any one has time to think al)oul it.' 
 
 As the four men Hstened intently, a faint,
 
 ijf OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 261 
 
 dull noise in the distance gradually resolved 
 itself into the familiar sound of hoof-beats, 
 the measured strokes of horses ridden at 
 speed, which came nearer and still nearer. 
 In the stillness of the night each sound could 
 be heard as plainly as though within the 
 home paddock. 
 
 At this moment Constable Gray entered, 
 his eyes glistening with excitement. 'They're 
 near a mile off yet,' he said. ' I went to the 
 paddock gate and listened. There's three of 
 'em. Three horses, any road — that's Johnny 
 the Pacer has joined 'em ; though I don't 
 expect he means fighting. The dogs'll 
 challenge when they come a bit closer,' 
 
 'You stay outside till they dismount,' said 
 the sergeant. ' See what door they make for, 
 and then fall back on us. They don't know 
 what's before them.' 
 
 The young trooper went quietly out, 
 moving with cautious and wary tread. The 
 roll of hoofs sounded yet closer. Suddenly 
 there arose a chorus of furious barking and 
 fierce growling from the pack of dogs of 
 various breed which a head station always 
 supports. It told that strangers — presumably
 
 262 THE CROOKED STICK chap, ix 
 
 hostile — had at that hitc hour invaded the 
 premises. 
 
 Just then Gray re-entered. ' One man 
 left with the horses. Two coming this way, 
 making for the back-door.' 
 
 ' It's unlatched,' said the sergeant. ' Let 
 them come.'
 
 CHAPTER X 
 
 In another moment steps were heard on 
 the verandah. The growHng dogs, still 
 deeply distrustful, remained in the yard. A 
 hand tried the back-door ; it yielded, but this 
 apparently excited no suspicion. It is not 
 the custom to lock up houses in the bush of 
 Australia. Burglars are unknown, and bush- 
 rangers prefer to transact their business 
 chiefly in broad daylight — about the hour 
 of 1 1 A.M. This was held to be an 
 exceptional case. 
 
 ' The storekeeper sleeps off the big room,' 
 said some one cautiously. ' I saw him there 
 when I was buying tobacco.' 
 
 'That's Billy's voice,' whispered Gray. 
 ' I'd know it amongst a thousand.' 
 
 ' Let's go in anyhow,' a rougher voice 
 answered. ' There's not a dashed soul
 
 264 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 awake. LiLiht a match and we'll have him 
 out.' 
 
 A match Hashed, lighting' uj> the dim 
 room, but with a result wholly unexpected 
 l)V the chief actors in the melodrama. As 
 they looked carelessly round the silent 
 room they could hardly restrain a start of 
 surprise as their roving eyes fell upon the 
 sergeant in full uniform, the armed men, the 
 levelled weapons. At the same moment Mr. 
 Gate ward arose from behind his bale, and 
 lighting a tallow lam]), retired discreetly. 
 
 I'ut in far less time than is occupied in 
 tracing these ephemeral lines, thought had 
 matured and action followed. Outmanceuvred, 
 outnumbered as they were, the cool courage 
 (jf the race was as manifest in these unhai)py 
 outlaws as in the best men of Britain's warlike 
 lorces. 
 
 'Surrender in the Uueen's name!' roared 
 the sergeant. ' lis no use, IJilly ; better give 
 in (|uietly.' 
 
 ' Not alive you don't get us.' answered 
 lh(; younger man. with ihe soft, deliberate 
 intonation ol llu: native-born Australian, 
 while lie raised his revolver.
 
 X . OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 265 
 
 The Other, a grizzled, broad-shouldered 
 ruffian, shorter than his companion by several 
 inches, forbore reply, but firing at the 
 sergeant's first word, shot Bertram Devereux 
 through the body, sending also a second 
 bullet into Harold Atherstone's right arm 
 without loss of time. As he did so, 
 Atherstone shifted his revolver to his left hand 
 and fired deliberately. The robber sprang 
 and fell on his face. 
 
 At that moment it seemed as if every fire- 
 arm in the room was discharged simultane- 
 ously — the sergeant's rifle, Gray's and Moss- 
 thorne's revolvers. When the smoke cleared, 
 Mossthorne lay dead with a rifle bullet through 
 his heart and with a smaller bullet through 
 his shoulder. Bertram Devereux, bleeding 
 profusely, was lying insensible, 
 
 Mr. Gate ward had come forward from 
 behind his entrenchment. ' Seems there 
 was enough of you without me,' he said, 
 ' but I felt cowardly like, stowed away 
 behind the sheepskins. But surely the 
 Doctor ain't finished this young gentle- 
 man now, as well as the poor Captain 
 long ago ? '
 
 266 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
   l>y — ! that rally's over quick ! ' ex- 
 claimed the sergeant, as he drew a full breath 
 and gazed around, while Mr, Gateward looked 
 on the prostrate forms with a curious mixture 
 of relief and regret. ' Short and sharp while 
 it lasted, wasn't it. Mr. Atherstone .'* ' the 
 sergeant continued, addressing himself to 
 that gentleman, who had raised Devereux's 
 head with his left arm, and was trying to 
 discover the nature of the wound. ' I'd 
 rather have taken the Doctor alive, but he 
 gave us no time ; shooting's too good for 
 him ! y\s for poor Billy, he's better where 
 he is than locked up in gaol for his natural 
 life. Now about Mr. Devereux. We must 
 look to him first thing. He's hard hit, but 
 it mayn't be serious. Where's Dr. Ryan .-^ 
 Oh! at Wannonbah. That's just right. 
 We'll want him for the incjuest besides. 
 ConstaI)Ie Cirav ! 
 
 The young man, who had been examining 
 the wound in Mossthorne's breast, stood al 
 attention. 'Take my roan horse and ride 
 like h — 1 to Wannonbah. 'I'ell 1 )r. Ryan 
 to come here straight. Then go to th(! 
 barracks and tell the senior constable to
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 267 
 
 telegraph to the coroner straight off. Come 
 back with him yourself 
 
 With a sign of assent the young man 
 passed out into the night. A rush of 
 flying hoofs told in marvellously short 
 space that he was speeding on his errand 
 on the best three-miler in the district. 
 
 ' Now let's have a look at Mr. Devereux,' 
 said Heme. ' Hold his head a little higher. 
 How do you feel, sir ? Bleeding stopped, but 
 you've lost a lot of blood. Faintish, I 
 daresay. Gateward, bring the brandy out 
 of your room ; a taste will do him good 
 — and Mr. Atherstone too, for the matter 
 of that. Seems the ball turned outward. 
 Breathe a little, sir. That's all right,' as 
 the wounded man took a deep inspiration. 
 ' Take a sip of this, and we'll carry you to bed.' 
 
 ' I feel better, I think,' said the wounded 
 man, speaking with difficulty. ' I must have 
 fainted, I suppose. That scoundrel was too 
 quick for me. I thought he might surrender. 
 What ! are you winged, Atherstone ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, worse luck,' said Harold, suppressing 
 a groan as the broken bone grated. ' The 
 fellow did not shoot badly, either. Billy just
 
 268 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 missed the sergediu, I see. There's his bullet 
 mark in the door.' 
 
 "lie tired first; but I didn't miss ////;/,' 
 replied that officer, with a grim smile. 
 ' Grav's revolver bullet went throuo-h his 
 shoulder. Vou tlropped the Doctor in 
 good time, Mr. Atherstone, just before he 
 got to his third barrel. We'd better put 
 a cloth over them now.' 
 
 As he spoke a tall white female figure 
 appeared in th(; doorway. It was Pollie 
 Devereux herself, wrapped in a dressing- 
 gown. In her eyes, wide and shining in 
 the half-light, was horror unspeakable, with 
 nameless dread, as she gazed upon the forms 
 that lay j)rone and so motionless. 
 
 ' I could not wail longer after the shots 
 ceased,' she said jjleadingly. 'I was growing 
 mad with an.\i('ty. Mother is j)raying still. 
 Are the men both dead .-' This one is Billy 
 Mossthorne, I know. Poor fellow ! I can't 
 help being sorry for him. I remember his 
 being at Maroobil,' 
 
 1 It-r gaze, which had been for the moment 
 riveted to the still forms which 
 
 Lay as dead men only lie,
 
 X OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 269 
 
 Strayed towards the darker corner of the 
 room, where Atherstone was supporting 
 Bertram Devereux. The expression of 
 her features changed instantaneously to 
 that of agonising terror. She raised her 
 arms with a gesture of despair, and for 
 the moment seemed as if about to abandon 
 herself to a transport of grief. But re- 
 covering with a strong effort of will, she 
 sprang to the side of the wounded man, 
 and kneeling, threw her arms around his 
 neck, while she implored Harold to tell 
 her if the wound was mortal. 
 
 * Oh, how his blood has been flowing ! ' 
 she said. 'How pale he is! His eyes are 
 shut. And you too, Harold ? Your arm 
 is hurt ; and I was wicked enough to joke 
 about him last night. If he dies I shall 
 never forgive myself Oh, my dear, dear 
 Bertram ! ' 
 
 Whether this impassioned adjuration had 
 any special effect upon the patient is uncertain, 
 but as he opened his eyes, he smiled faintly 
 in acknowledgment of the sympathetic 
 words. 
 
 ' Much better, dearest Pollie,' he said.
 
 270 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 ' No cause — for — alarm — much better. Flesh 
 wound — only.' With this he turned pale and 
 closed his eyes. 
 
 * Oh ! ivhy has not some one gone for 
 the doctor.^' demanded the girl passionately. 
 ' He may die yet for want of assistance, and 
 we are so helpless. I will go myself to 
 Waiinonbah if there is no one else.' 
 
 ' Constable Gray is half-way there by this 
 time,' said Harold calmly. ' No time has 
 been lost. H I mi^hi suggest, you will help 
 us best by asking i\Irs. Devereux to be kind 
 enough to have vour cousin's bedroom pre- 
 pared, so that we may carry him in.' 
 
 ' You are quite right. Mother and 1 w ill 
 watch by him till 1 )r. Ryan comes. I know 
 I am unreasonable and foolish, but you must 
 bear with me a little. Is your wound painful ? ' 
 
 ' M)' wound is a scratch,' he answered 
 roughly. ' Don t trouble yourself about it. 
 Ask your mother to do what I say.' Upon 
 this Pollie retired ; and with but little loss of 
 time Mr. iM-rtram Devereu.x was placed upon 
 his own bed in th(; spacious a[jartmenl which 
 he occu[;ied, and with all \\\v. nc:cessary arrange- 
 nients pr()m|)tly made for his benefit.
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBA TION 271 
 
 Mrs. Devereux at once devoted herself to 
 his relief and solace as if she had been his 
 mother. Her heart was stirred with addi- 
 tional tenderness as she recalled her husband's 
 death from a similar wound at the hands of 
 the same man. For the truth had leaked out 
 through Mr. Gateward. The widow of Brian 
 Devereux now knew that the hand stained 
 with her husband's life-blood had been im- 
 brued with that of the younger scion of the 
 house, now wan and helpless before her ; that 
 the robber in his turn had fallen by Harold 
 Atherstone's bullet and lay dead beneath her 
 roof. 
 
 ' Thank God ! Harold is but slighdy hurt,' 
 she exclaimed. ' I regard him with a feeling 
 I should extend to no other man as the aveneer 
 
 o 
 
 of my husband's blood. But oh ! if the boy 
 be likewise sacrificed ! What a fate seems 
 to pursue the race. May God in His infinite 
 mercy avert it ! ' 
 
 Pollie had been sent to bed with peremptory 
 commands to go to sleep instantly, and on no 
 account to rise till she was called. The 
 mother watched, hour after hour, with the 
 unwearied patience of women under the
 
 272 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 excitation of grief or duty. Ere daylight 
 broke, a trampling of horses was heard, and 
 the man ol skill, the arbiter of lite and death, 
 appeared in the chamber. 
 
 .After careful e.xamination. Dr. Ryan gave 
 it as his decided opinion that the bullet had 
 taken an outward course ; had therefore 
 injured no vital organ ; that the faintness had 
 been caused by loss of blood, which symptom 
 was natural, but not necessarily dano^erous. 
 lie commanded Mrs. Uevereux to seek the 
 rest she required, saying that he would take 
 her plac(' at the bedside of his patient. He 
 would see what Mr. Atherstone's injury was 
 like, and would make a search for the missing 
 bulk.-t in the morning. 
 
 * Vou will \\A\v. me here for a day or two, 
 .Mrs. Devereux, .so you must make me useful. 
 It will all come to the same in the bill. 1 
 shall be wanted when the; coroner comes. 
 I'ortunate escape you h;i\c all had, lo be sure.' 
 
 With the morn came gcjod tidings, and 
 reli('f from the doubts and fears which had so 
 cruelly torturctd the dwellers at Corindah. 
 1 )r. Ryan, ijy his exercise of professional skill
 
 X OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 273 
 
 or the aid of exceptional good fortune, verified 
 his favourable diagnosis by extracting the 
 bullet, which had lodged in the outer muscle. 
 The bleeding- having- ceased and the wound 
 been dressed, there was no reason, he averred, 
 why the patient, with such careful and intelli- 
 gent nursing as he was certain to enjoy at 
 Corindah, should not be well and hearty 
 within the month. 
 
 The coroner too, a high and dignified 
 official, arrived with the jury, more police, 
 and, it appeared, likewise with a large pro- 
 portion of the population of Wannonbah. 
 The inquest was held duly and formally, a 
 jury of twelve being impanelled, by whom a 
 verdict of justifiable homicide was returned, 
 the slain men being declared to have been 
 killed in righteous defence. A rider was 
 added to the effect that ' the conduct of 
 Sergeant Heme and Constable Gray was 
 deserving of high commendation, their cool- 
 ness and courage rendering them, in the 
 opinion of the jury, worthy of speedy pro- 
 motion. In token of which, as well the 
 Coroner as we the said jurors have attached 
 our seals,' etc. 
 
 T
 
 274 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 The bodies were buried in the little grave- 
 yard of Wannonbah, situated upon a yarran- 
 shaded sandhill about a mile from that infant 
 city. The denominational divisions, owing 
 to the climate or other influences perhaps, 
 were not so strictly defined as is the case 
 in some rural Australian cemeteries, where a 
 closely paled fence divides Protestant from 
 Catholic, and Jew from Dissenter. At 
 Wannonbah the dead slept much as they 
 pleased, or rather, as their relatives desired. 
 So Billy IMossthorne, having kinsfolk and 
 sympathisers in th(; district, was buried near 
 a maternal aunt who had nursed him in his 
 childhood ; and the Doctor, coming in for 
 his share of indulgent forgiveness, was in- 
 terred by the side of a horse-breaker of 
 reasonably unblemished character. 
 
 Corindah was again tran(niil. The in- 
 evitable se(|uences, great and small, of the 
 night attack had been disposed of. The 
 police troopers, the doctor, the coroner, the 
 jurors had come and gone. 'Ilie account 
 in cxtcnso of the ' battle, murder, and sudden 
 death.' had bec:n hrst jiublished in the 
 W'annonbiik W'utcluniDi, wwA then had ufone
 
 X OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 275 
 
 the round of the metropoHtan and provincial 
 papers. Sergeant Miles Heme was pro- 
 moted to be sub-inspector, Constable Gray 
 to be senior constable. Then the excitement 
 ended, and the midnight affray at Corindah 
 slipped into the limbo of partly forgotten facts. 
 One or two results, however, were not 
 so speedily disposed of. Harold Ather- 
 stone's good right arm was of very little 
 use to him during the ensuing half-year, 
 the broken bones being somewhat tardy 
 in uniting ; and Bertram Devereux, through 
 carelessness on his own part, had a relapse, 
 and after hoverino- between life and death 
 for several weeks, lay deathlike and slowly 
 recovering in his room, needing the most 
 careful and constant attendance to ' bring 
 him through,' as Dr. Ryan expressed it 
 himself. In this labour of love both mother 
 and daughter were closely engaged for many 
 a day after the event. It was the first 
 time that Pollie's feminine instincts had 
 been called into play by the necessity for 
 personal service which a wounded soldier 
 generally imposes upon the nearest available 
 maiden. No situation, as persons of experi-
 
 276 THE CROOKED STICK chai'. 
 
 dice will admit, is more favourable to the 
 development of the tender passion. The 
 touching helplessness of ihe sufferer, the 
 sense of possession and ownership, so to 
 speak — albeit temporar)^ — the allowable ex- 
 ag'geration of gratitude, the implied devotion: 
 all these circumstances in combination render 
 the relative positions of maiden fair and help- 
 less knii^ht so extremely suitable for mutual 
 attachment, that the blind archer rarely fails 
 to score an inner uuld. 
 
 So, during the patient hours when the 
 heavy eyes were closed, when the pale brow 
 required bathing with can dc Cologne, when 
 the spasm of pain contracted the features, 
 when the restless fever - tossed frame lay 
 helpless, the heart of the maiden, unfolding 
 flower -like, grew tender and loving. She 
 persuaded herself thai a fite migluicjr iluui 
 themselves had decreed their union. She 
 awaited but the avowal which liis (')'(.'S had 
 long made, but which his lips had not yet 
 confirmed, to acknowledge her.self his own for 
 ever, in lilc or death, here in her native land 
 or In ih(i unknown regions beyond the sea. 
 
 Alter much consideration Miss Devereux
 
 X OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 277 
 
 had sagely concluded that Bertram was the 
 only man she had ever met who inspired her 
 with feelings of sufficiently romantic intensity, 
 who aroused in her as yet untouched heart 
 the longing and the dread, the joy and the 
 mystery, the strange, inexplicable, subtly 
 compounded essence which the poets in all 
 ages have termed love. 
 
 Why it should be so she was unable to 
 comprehend. She told herself that he was 
 not so strong and true as this adorer, so 
 clever as that, or so amusing as the other ; 
 but still, why was it ? Who can tell } who 
 explain the birth of fancy, the apparition 
 of love ? But she chose to make him her 
 hero. And if she so willed it, who was there 
 to gainsay her ? 
 
 Among the other privileges which her 
 nursing sisterhood permitted was that of 
 receiving and bringing in the letters of her 
 patient. About these he had always been, 
 reticent, never encouraging conversation 
 thereon, or admitting that any patently 
 feminine superscriptions were not those of 
 his mother, sisters, or cousins. 
 
 Among those which arrived by the monthly
 
 278 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 mail-Steamer was one. the peculiar handwriting 
 of which Pollie remembered having noticed at 
 an earlier jDeriod of his sojourn. The char- 
 acters were delicately formed, but tlu; abrupt 
 terminal strokes indicated, as she thought, 
 no ordinary degree of determination, even 
 obstinacy of purpose. 
 
 'Ah! my cousin Eleanor,' he said with a 
 faint smile, as she held \\y the letter ; 'she is 
 my most regular, most useful correspondent. 
 Poor little Nellie, how she: would stare to see 
 me lying here ! She was my best friend when 
 I was a graceless schoolboy, and takes an 
 interest in th(' jxjor e.xile now.' lie opened 
 the oth(M- letters one by one, but did not seem 
 to a\ail himself of this one. ' Ii will keep,' 
 he said carelessly. ' Country news, for which 
 I am losing my relish, i)oachersand pheasants, 
 hunting and coursing, quite a journal of village 
 historiettes.' 
 
 ' A good correspondeiu, cvidciuly,' said 
 I'ollir. 'judging frr.in ihc ihicknc-ss of the 
 letters, she deserves some gratitude. lUit 
 when we women harness ourselves to a 
 man's chariot, that is the trcaimcni w(^ 
 chielly receive.'
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 279 
 
 'That we are always over-indulged,' he 
 answered, with a faint smile and a meaning 
 look, ' I am the last man living to deny. But 
 what must we do ? It is cruel to refuse kind 
 offices, the mere acceptance of which so 
 gratifies the donor.' 
 
 ' It may be so,' assented the girl thought- 
 fully, ' but the bare suspicion that my offering 
 was tolerated would madden me. "All or 
 nothing " is the Devereux motto, and it seems 
 to embody the family temperament.' 
 
 Poor PoUie ! could her eyes have pierced 
 the inclosure ! 
 
 This was the missive she unconsciously 
 bore to the interesting sufferer : — 
 
 Wynton Hall, 27//; May 188- 
 My own darling Bertie — You seem carelessly to 
 have missed the last mail, at which I was woefully dis- 
 appointed, and besides, I was not by any means satisfied 
 with the tone of your last letter, sir ! I read it, yes, 
 fool that I am, over and over again, to see if I could 
 not cheat myself into the belief that your feelings towards 
 me were unchanged and, as mine are, unchangeable. 
 
 But I could not do it. Something, too, seems to 
 exhale from the very lines of your writing, every letter of 
 which I know so well, breathing coldness and change, 
 the decay of love, the death of constancy. 
 
 Yes, Bertram Devereux, I distrust you. You are
 
 28o THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 beginning to play a double game. Another woman has 
 taken your fancy — most likely the lovely cousin of whom 
 you wrote in your first letter, but about whom you have 
 been suspiciously silent or guarded of late. You can 
 deceive, have deceived many people, but you never 
 deceived me. So beware ! If for money, or what you 
 men call love, you elect to play the traitor with me, to 
 prove false to the vows which you called heaven and 
 earth to witness, to break the compact which I have 
 rigidly observed — gardez-vous hien, man ami ! 
 
 If you do not already know me sufficiently, believe 
 this, that you will do so. I will never be deserted and 
 scorned with impunity. I hold you bound to me by 
 the most sacred oaths, by what I have forfeited on earth 
 irrevocably, by what in heaven or hell I may yet have to 
 expiate. And remember, I am capable of anything in 
 the way of revenge to punish your falsehood. 
 
 If you dare to betray me, to doom me to a life of 
 loneliness and remorse, to the torture of neglect, to the 
 endless regret of desertion and contemjit — but no, you 
 cannot dream of perpetrating such fiendish cruelty. I 
 am mad to make the accusation. My brain seems on 
 fire. I can write no more. Believe me for ever and 
 for ever yours only, Sybil de Wvnton. 
 
 That nii^ht the sleep of the convalescent 
 was troiil)l((l. His head moved restlessly on 
 the pillow. Ills brain was fevc^rishly active, 
 ilis soothing draught Jailed of its ('flecl. 
 When Pollie came to his hcdside with his 
 breakfast she was shock(.:d at the (hawn look
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 281 
 
 of his face, its pallor, and the dark rings 
 under his eyes. 
 
 'We must keep back your home letters 
 until you are quite strong,' she said, with an 
 archly innocent smile, and a child's mis- 
 chievous gleam in her eye, ' if they affect 
 you like this. Your cousin's country chronicle 
 must be strong meat for babes. But perhaps 
 you have really had bad news, and I am talk- 
 ing foolishness ? ' 
 
 ' My news is of a mixed complexion,' he 
 said, trying to assume a cheerful expression. 
 ' Partly good, but I have been disappointed 
 in an important matter upon which I had 
 set my heart. But I am so weak that the 
 least thing tells upon me.' Here he lifted 
 his eyes to the sympathetic, tender face, 
 which to him now seemed as that of an 
 angel, and a wistful appeal for pity appeared 
 to be written on every line of his counte- 
 nance. 
 
 It was the fateful moment in which heart 
 answers to heart, and the destinies of two 
 beings are for ever determined. It was the 
 electric spark which fires the mine, which 
 shatters the feeble defence raised by reason
 
 282 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 against that most ancient strategist and arch- 
 conqueror, Love. A change passed over the 
 girl's countenance, so swift, so subtle, so pro- 
 found, that a less experienced student of 
 woman's ways might have read the sign. 
 To Bertram Devereux it was the plainest of 
 print — with love's surrender in every line. 
 He saw that pity, measureless and tender, as 
 is woman's sympathy for man's strength laid 
 low, iiad completed the spell which had been 
 workinii: on her sensitive, imacfinative nature 
 since his arrival. But for his wound, his 
 near escape from death, the long hours of 
 tendance, he doubted whether the capture of 
 this shy, sweet wild-bird of the waste would 
 have been effected. But now he doubted no 
 longer. Slic would nestle in his bosom, 
 would trill her soult and curb her lliorht at 
 his desire. The victor)- was won. and in the 
 bla/.e of his triumph all doubts vanished as 
 clouds at dawn. lor ih(' moment he scorned 
 the dread which had tortured him in the 
 dreary night-watches. He forgot that he 
 was a coward and a traitor. lie banished 
 the thought of the sad, reproachful gaze of a 
 fnrsnl<<ii woman. ;\ new lil(j in a ikjw land.
 
 X OR POLLirS PROS A TION 283 
 
 a new world of love and splendour lay before 
 him. 
 
 Their eyes had met, their hands, their 
 lips, long before this glowing, passionate 
 thought- procession passed through his ex- 
 cited brain. As the girl sat by the bed-side 
 of her pale, death-stricken lover, with his 
 wasted hand in hers, she felt as if the sur- 
 render of her every thought and feeling to 
 his future welfare would be a price all too 
 small to pay for the boundless happiness 
 which had been granted to her. She was 
 the most favoured of earth's daughters. All 
 other thoughts and sensations showed wan 
 and lifeless before this wondrous magic rose 
 of love. 
 
 ' But I must leave you, Bertram dear,' 
 she said. ' You are too weak to be troubled 
 with me. No! not another minute. Mother 
 will bring you your medicine. You must 
 then have a good sleep, and wake up quite 
 a new man,' So, with one long look of 
 tenderest denial, the fairy of his dreams 
 vanished from the gazer's sight. 
 
 The days of Bertram Devereux's linger- 
 ing in hospital were nearly ended. Over
 
 284 THE CROOKED STICK chap, x 
 
 those which he still had to undergo was shed 
 the radiance, the sweet love-light of woman's 
 first love. He seemed to gain strength from 
 that hour. He was soon able to lie at 
 len^rth antl dream in the cane lount^e in the 
 shaded verandah ; later on, to wander amid 
 the orange trees by the lagoon edge, sup- 
 ported indeed by Pol lie's fair round arm, and 
 closely pressed to that true and tender heart. 
 .•\l ihi: termination of his illness, when but 
 for a slightly added pallor, a languor, that 
 but accentuated his ordinary indifferent 
 manner, no trace remained of ihe effects of 
 the wound that hatl well-nigh proved fatal, 
 it was then officially inad(; known to the 
 friends of the funily that the heiress of 
 Corindah was engaged to i)c married to her 
 cousin .Mr. 1 )c:vereu.\, lale of ller Majesty's 
 Sixth Dragoon Guards.
 
 CHAPTER XI 
 
 Even in the first flush and transport of her 
 love-dream Pollie could not wholly divest 
 herself of the dread that Bertram Devereux 
 might in England have loved with all the 
 depth of his nature some one who even now 
 had claims upon him. In vain she asked 
 herself why such a thought should have 
 passed through her mind. She could not 
 tell. But, to her deep unrest, it remained 
 to arise and torment her at intervals, like 
 an unquiet spirit. On the subject of his 
 feminine correspondence she had noticed, as 
 she thought, a departure from his usual calm- 
 ness, a studied air of carelessness. What if 
 her surmises should be true, that he was 
 either engaged or had been the victim of one 
 of those absorbing, soul-engrossing attach- 
 ments which leave the heart of man a burnt-
 
 286 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 out volcano — barren, lifeless, dead to all 
 succeeding influences? She would ask him. 
 Ihe tornient of doubt on such a subject was 
 too acute for endurance. Yet so far had 
 she softened towards him, so far was her 
 whole nature in a malleable state, that if he 
 had but made frank confession she could 
 have forgiven him. 
 
 And one day accident led up to the 
 subject of previous attachment. Having 
 disclaimed, on her part, the slighest tender- 
 ness in the past to living man, she looked 
 her lover full in the face, as was her wont 
 when aroused, and said — 
 
 * You have had my disclaimer, but tell 
 me now, Bertram, il ihere lives any woman 
 in the land you h.ivc Icti who is able to say, 
 " That is my lover. This is ihe in;ui whose 
 vows, if ke[jl, would bind him lu me till 
 death. He has broken faith and betrayed 
 love in deserting me now." Answer me truly, 
 on your soul's jx-ril, and the subject shall be 
 buried for evermore.' 
 
 As she realis(u1 in her own mind the slow 
 torture, the melancholy days, the 'dead un- 
 happy nights ' to which a woman is doomed
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 287 
 
 who waits in vain for him whom she loves, 
 hoping against hope, refusing the sad truth, 
 until all limit of credence be passed, so 
 vehement an indignation fired her every 
 feeling against the imaginary recreant that 
 she looked like an inspired vestal denouncing 
 the sins of a nation. ' Tell me truly, Bert- 
 ram,' she said, 'that there is no hateful ghost 
 of a dead love between you and my soul's 
 devotion.' 
 
 A thrill passed through his inmost heart 
 as he thought how nearly her random shaft 
 had touched the dark secret of his life. Yet 
 his eyes met hers fully and fairly. With 
 men he had ever been exact and truthful, 
 even to bluntness, but in the school of ethics 
 in which he had been reared it was held no 
 dishonour to lie frankly where a woman was 
 concerned. So he bore himself accordingly. 
 
 '1 scarcely think,' he said slowly, 'that 
 a man is bound to lay bare the whole of his 
 former life to the woman he is about to 
 marry, nor is she wise to ask it. But,' and 
 here he looked steadily into her innocent, 
 trustful eyes, ' if it comforts you to think that 
 you are the sole possessor of this invaluable
 
 288 THE CROOKED STICK ciiai-. 
 
 heart of mine, I give you my word that no 
 other woman has the shadow of a claim 
 upon it.' 
 
 • 1 ijcHeve you,' she said ; 'it removes my 
 last lingerinij^ doubt as to our perfect happi- 
 ness. In sickness, in health, in poverty or 
 riches, by land or sea. never had man a 
 truer mate than you will find in me.' 
 
 He drew her to his side in silence, even 
 then repenting of his falsehood to this trust- 
 ing, easily deceived creature. Still, what 
 good would it do her to know } Why pain 
 her sensitive heart .'* And was there any — 
 the remotest — chance of his deceit heinrr ex- 
 posed.-* An ocean rolled between him antl 
 that passionate, headstrong woman whom he 
 had loved with the unrellecting ardour of 
 youth. Circumstances had certainly tcMided 
 of late years to favour the idea that she 
 would be free. In that event he had sworn 
 a thousand times to make her his wife. Hut 
 it was a contin^jency which mi^ht never arise. 
 in the meantime was he to give ujj a career 
 such as was now opening before liiiiir A 
 lovely, loving bride, who wouki be an envied 
 possession wherever they went .'* A fortune
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 2S9 
 
 which would enable him to satisfy all desires 
 and tastes hitherto uncrratified ? Was all this 
 to be sacrificed — for what ? For a passion 
 of which he had overrated the force and 
 permanence in the days of inexperience ? 
 The price was too great to pay. 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 The marriage was fixed for the ensuing 
 November, the first summer month. They 
 would leave the hot plains of the North-West 
 for New Zealand, after visiting the Australian 
 capitals. Side by side they would revel in 
 the glories of Rotomahana, sail on the magic 
 lake, and marvel over the fairy terraces, re- 
 turning only with the last month of autumn, 
 when the peerless winter of the interior 
 would be before them. A year's peaceful 
 enjoyment of the quiet Corindah life would 
 prepare them for the momentous, unutterably 
 delicious expedition to the Old World, when 
 the dream of Pollie's life would be realised 
 and an elysium of bliss, a paradise, intellec- 
 tual, social and material, would open before 
 her. 
 
 ' You romantic child ! ' Bertram said, 
 
 looking almost pityingly at her, as in one 
 
 u
 
 290 THE CROOKED STICK cmap. 
 
 of her imafjinative (lifrhts she was, like an 
 improvvisatrice, picturing vividly a long list 
 of pleasures to come. ' And so you believe 
 in happiness ! I only trust you will not 
 be disillusioned when we reach this wonder- 
 ful dream England of yours. And yet it 
 may be so,' he said, smoothing her bright 
 hair as one placates a child. ' In your 
 company, O my sweet, I shall renew 
 the youth 1 have been in danger of 
 losino:.' 
 
 Whatever might have been Mr. IJertram 
 Devereux's secret thoughts on the subject 
 of his prospects, he appeared to have im- 
 proved outwardlv, as all the neicrhbours and 
 employees agreed. The alteration e.xtended 
 to his general demeanour. 1 le threw off in 
 great part the reserve which had marketl 
 his earlier tone, and assumed a genial role 
 which no one could, when he liked, sustain 
 better than him.S(tlf. lie took occasion to 
 visit W'annonbah more frequently. I b- 
 identified himself with the local interests and 
 occupations of the district. lie utilised his 
 exceptional gifts and attainments to such 
 purpose that all (iny at his good fortune
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 291 
 
 disappeared. He was finally voted by the 
 younger squatters and the Wannonbah 
 society generally to be a ' deuced good fellow ' 
 (when you came to know him), who would 
 take his position among them, and be an 
 acquisition to the district. 
 
 Harold Atherstone had gone away for 
 change of air about the time when his arm 
 was recovering its strength, and did not 
 return until the engagement between Pollie 
 and her cousin was matter of Q-eneral 
 comment. He heard of it, indeed, before 
 he left town, at his club. What his sensa- 
 tions were at the announcement none ever 
 knew. A man who bore his griefs and 
 failures in secret, he disclosed none of his 
 deeper feelings. When he met Pollie 
 Devereux in her own home, it was with an 
 untroubled brow. The kind, brave face, the 
 wise, steadfast eyes, which she had known 
 from childhood, were unaltered. 
 
 Pollie herself had vague misgivings that 
 her all-important step would not meet with 
 his approbation. Knowing that she needed 
 not to hold herself responsible to him or any 
 other, she yet feared lest a kind of indefinable
 
 292 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 injustice had been done by f(^rsaking so 
 loyal a friend. She would have felt un- 
 speakably relieved by his full approbation 
 and consent. 
 
 ' Vou have heard of my engagement,' she 
 said, as he held her hand at their first meeting 
 after his return. 'Are you not going to 
 give me joy and congratulate me on my 
 happiness } ' 
 
 ' 1 may congratulate ///;//,' he said, a little 
 sadly. 'iMy wishes for your happiness need 
 no r(*newal. The)' do not date from to-day, 
 as you well know. \\ hatever renders you 
 happy and preserves you so will always be 
 a jjarl of ni\- joy in life. May God bless 
 you, dear, and keep )ou from sorrow ever- 
 more ! ' 
 
 In a half-unconscious way he drew the 
 girl towards him, and kissed her as might 
 a bnnher — tenderly, but without passion. 
 Then he turned and h It her, while she 
 walked .slowly and pensively towards the 
 house. She felt thai he had forgiven her; 
 that he; w.is loo noble to harbour envy or 
 resenlnnMU. I'>ut with woman's (julckness 
 slv ili\ined lh.it he was grieved to the: heart,
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 293 
 
 and that all his self-command was needed to 
 enable him to appear unmoved. Again and 
 again she asked herself whether she had done 
 wisely in following the passion-cries of her 
 heart rather than the dictates of reason. A 
 vain wish that she could have combined 
 both agitated her. Of how many women 
 and men might the same tale be told ! 
 
 Mrs. Devereux was rather resigned to the 
 arrangement as inevitable and impossible 
 to amend than wholly approving. More 
 acute and experienced, she had noticed the 
 smaller defects of character in Bertram 
 Devereux which had escaped the eye of her 
 daughter. Not that Pollie would have 
 suffered them to influence her. But the 
 unconscious selfishness, the irritability, the 
 ignoring of the tastes of others, which she 
 had observed in her future son-in-law, did 
 not, in her estimation, augur well for her 
 child's happiness. When she thought of 
 Harold Atherstone's long, unrewarded devo- 
 tion, she could scarcely repress her vexation. 
 ' What fools we women are ! ' she said 
 bitterly to herself. 'We trample on pearls 
 and gems of manhood, only to prize some
 
 294 THE CROOKED STICK c\\\\\ 
 
 glitterinj^^ j)L'1)1)1c without intrinsic value 
 or beauty. When, as in my case, one is 
 blessed with a husband wlio unites all the 
 qualities which women love and men respect, 
 b'ate steps in and deprives her of him. I low 
 little real hapjjiness there seems to be in this 
 world of ours ! ' 
 
 While poor Mrs. Devereux thus bemoaned 
 herself over the anomalies of life, the weeks 
 of the short spring and early summer passed 
 quickly along the flowery track, which, even 
 in the Waste, is fair with wealth of leaf and 
 blossom, with joyous birds and tempered 
 sunshine, with high hope and joy and 
 expectation of the coming year. The season 
 hatl again been favourable. Wealth was 
 llowing into Corindah and the nei^hbourinL: 
 stations after the abundant fashion which, 
 during a succession of good years, obtains in 
 Australia I)(,-s(M-la. After her child was 
 gone, Mrs. Devereux thought she would 
 sell out and tak(! up her abode in I'urope for 
 good. After tasting the glories and social 
 splendours of the Old World, which she would 
 fully appreciate, I'ollie would not choose to 
 return to Australia. Men sometimes came
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 295 
 
 back to the land of spur and snaffle and wide- 
 acred freedom, weary of cities and the 
 artificial European Hfe ; but women, in her 
 experience, never. They had reached across 
 the ocean a fairy realm, where the supreme 
 social luxuries were purchasable and abun- 
 dant ; servants and equipages, households 
 and surroundings, music and the drama, art 
 and literature, society at once congenial and 
 aristocratic, travel and excitement — all these 
 things were to be had for money. This they 
 possessed. Why should they return to a 
 land where much of this enticing catalogue 
 did not exist, where a tithe of civilisation was 
 difficult, the rest impossible to obtain ? 
 
 So Mrs. Devereux sadly looked forward 
 to passing the close of her days in England 
 — a foreign land, as far as she was concerned 
 — far from the home, the friends, the associa- 
 tions of her youth, her whole life indeed, up 
 to this stage. To her the prospect was 
 simply one of exile and endurance. 
 
 It had been arranged that the marriage 
 was to take place in Sydney early in 
 November. Mrs. Devereux would go 
 thither with her daughter immediately after
 
 296 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 that important annual ceremony, the shear- 
 ing at Corindah. was concluded. The good 
 lady jjreferred in a general way to manage 
 her own affairs. She signed her own 
 cheques, which during September and 
 October were like the sands of the sea for 
 multitude. Mr. Gateward was economical 
 and loyal. Still, it was always worth while 
 to attend to one's own business, she thought. 
 So that, although Bertram had pleaded for 
 an earlier day, the month of November was 
 fi.xed for the wedding, principally on account 
 of the said shearing and its responsibilities — 
 which he had come to loathe in consequence 
 as a comparatively trilling, Init none the less 
 ve.xatious, obstacle. 
 
 So wlicn tlu: October mail-steamer arrived 
 he was still at Corindah, and thilher his letters 
 came. I le happened to be away on the day of 
 arrival, and Pollie, (Miiptying on the hall table 
 the well-filled C(jrindah mail-ba<j;, sorted out 
 the different addresses to ' l^ertram Devereux, 
 Rsq., Corindah, W'annonbah, \(;\v South 
 Wales, Australia,' as was the general super- 
 scri[jtion of his l''uropean letters. Among 
 them I'ollie descried two letters in the
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 297 
 
 feminine handwritinof which she had before 
 remarked. One was addressed to her lover, 
 one to herself. 
 
 Yes, there could be no mistake. ' Miss 
 Devereux, Corindah, Wannonbah, New South 
 Wales, Australia.' It was doubtless from her 
 good, motherly cousin Eleanor, in congratula- 
 tion. It was very kind of her. She had had 
 only just time to write, too. Had the marriage 
 been in the month of October as Bertram 
 wished, she would have been too late. 
 
 So, with smiling eyes and unsuspicious 
 eagerness to behold the kindly, unfamiliar 
 lines from the probable kinswoman, Pollie 
 opened the letter, A painter would have 
 seized the moment for a priceless portrait, 
 had he been at hand to mark the instan- 
 taneous changes of expression — first wild 
 surprise, then horror ; the slow, expressive 
 alteration from trusting confidence and loving 
 hope to disappointment unspeakable, dismay, 
 despair. 
 
 This was the fatal sheet upon which her 
 eyes, first flashing indignant surprise, then 
 fell :—
 
 :yS THE CROOKED STICK ciiAr. 
 
 Wynton Hai.i., 9/// August 1S8-. 
 
 I should owe you an apology, Miss Devereux, for 
 thus addressing you, would the occasion admit of 
 unnecessary courtesy or delay. If the lifelong happi- 
 ness or misery of two women — of yourself or me — be 
 sufficient reason for disregarding ceremony, you will 
 hold me excused, nay, bless me in the future, whatever 
 may be the shock to your present feelings. I have 
 accidentally discovered, what before I only surmised, 
 that Bertram and yourself are about to be married. He 
 was careful not to give me a hint of his plot — for such 
 I must consider it to be. An Australian gentleman, a 
 Mr. Charteris, however, happened to be staying in the 
 house where I was visiting, and mentioned that his 
 friend Bertram Devereux was about to be married to 
 the beautiful heiress of Corindah. He had just heard 
 the news from a correspondent. From what I have 
 heard of your character, I assume that you would jirefer 
 to know the truth at all hazards. You would not be 
 willing, as are some weak women, to pardon in the man 
 of your choice shameless falsehood, base betrayal, anil 
 broken vows. 
 
 1 swear to you now, as Ciod shall judge me at the 
 (Ireat Day, that Bertram Devereux is tnitie — mine by 
 every vow, by every tie, which can bind man to woman. 
 Whoso accepts him, virtually takes another woman's 
 husband with her eyes open. As events are shaping 
 themselves I shall be shortly free. NO legal obstacle 
 to his fulfilment of the i)romise which he has a hundred 
 times made, will exist. Xon will wonder that I choose 
 to hold him to his bond after his proved faithlessness. 
 May you long be free from liie forbidden knowledge
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 299 
 
 which would enlighten you ! That I love him still is 
 one proof more, were it needed, of the wild inconsistency 
 of a woman's heart, I have told him of the letter to 
 you. I fear him not ; nothing earthly has power to 
 daunt me now. 
 
 You are free to take your own course, but you are 
 now warned against the sacrifice of your own happiness 
 and that of the wretched and desperate woman who 
 calls herself — Sybil de Wynton. 
 
 Holding the letter in her hand, the girl 
 walked feebly and uncertainly, like one in a 
 dream, to her own room. She saw through 
 the open window a horseman riding across 
 the plain towards the entrance gate. A few 
 short moments since she would have flown 
 to meet him. Now all was changed. It 
 was the loveliest afternoon. The air was 
 warm, yet free from the least excess of heat. 
 A sighing breeze swept along the course 
 of the now full-fed stream, and over the vast 
 breadth of prairie, waving with profuse 
 vegetation. But ' cloudless skies had lost 
 their power to cheer.' A wintry blight had 
 fallen upon the summer scene, banished its 
 gladness, and turned the bright -hued land- 
 scape into a scene of desolation and despair. 
 
 Sweet love was dead. In the heart of
 
 30O THE CROOKED STICK ciiAr. 
 
 the maiden was fixed an immovable sense of 
 disaster — life-wreck, woe unutterable. So, 
 when the word of doom is pronounced by 
 the couch of those near and dear, all know 
 that no hope or amendment, no recovery or 
 reparation is possible for evermore. 
 
 Such was the fatal effect in the crirl's 
 mind. She had no further thought or 
 speculation in the matter. Nothing was 
 possible. All was at an end between them, 
 ller life-dream was over. He had deceived 
 her. He had betrayed and had planned to 
 desert this other woman. In her innocent 
 eyes it was guilt of a blackness and 
 criminality inconceivable. All that had gone 
 before was like an evil dream of hairlireadth 
 escape amid avalanche and precipice, from 
 which the sleeper starts, breathing gr.uilude 
 for life; and safe awakening. 
 
 She locked the door of her room, and 
 casting herself upon the bed, 'all Iier o\;r- 
 laden heart gave way, and she wept and 
 lamentetl.' The cxcniiig brought a partial 
 calmness. Ilu: haU - instinctive sorrow 
 abated its poignant agony ; i)Ut a dull, hope- 
 less heartache, almost ijliysit.il, remained.
 
 XI 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 301 
 
 When the bell rang for the evening meal 
 a maid-servant came to inquire if she had 
 heard the summons. Her she despatched 
 to her mother, who soon appeared with 
 alarm and surprise in every line of her 
 face. 
 
 ' My darling, what has happened ? ' she 
 exclaimed. ' Bertram and I were wondering 
 what kept you. He has had such a pleasant 
 day.' 
 
 'Has he read his letters ? ' demanded the 
 girl, with an air of half-veiled bitterness. 
 
 ' Oh, no ! he said he should devote the 
 morning to them. Most of them were family 
 epistles, he expected, of no great conse- 
 quence.' 
 
 ' Oh, mother, my heart is broken ! I shall 
 die ! ' cried the girl, with sudden abandonment, 
 as she threw her arms round the elder woman's 
 neck. ' Read this, oh, mother, mother ! ' 
 Here she produced the fatal letter. 
 
 As Mrs. Devereux commenced to cast her 
 eyes over the sheet they seemed to dilate like 
 those of one who sees suddenly an object of 
 horror and loathing. When the end was 
 reached she threw down the letter, as if it
 
 302 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 had been a clinging serpent, and made as 
 though she would trample upon it. 
 
 ' Let ii lie there!' she said, her ordinarily 
 serene countenance changed as the girl had 
 seldom seen it. ' Not that I ha\-e any bitter 
 feeling towards the miserable woman that has 
 wroucfht this woe to us. No! niv heart is 
 filled with indignation against the man who 
 has acted so deceitful, so treacherous a part, 
 who so nearly succeeded in riu'ning your 
 happiness, my darling. That you would hav^e 
 been unhaiJi)y. who can d(nibt ? ' 
 
 ' Unhaj>py ! ' cried the girl. ' If 1 had come 
 to the knowledge of his deceit, his wicked- 
 ness, his cruelty in abandoning one to whom 
 he had sworn faith. 1 think I should have 
 died ; all belief in truth and honour would 
 have deserted me. I should have hated my 
 own i:xistence.' 
 
 'Let us thank (lod. my darling, that our 
 eyes have been ojjcucd in time, ere It was loo 
 late. I never heartily apjjroved of the affair. 
 Hut 1 leaven knows, though 1 had a kintl of 
 intuitive distrust of him, 1 never dreamt of 
 anything lik(; this. And now I must give 
 Mary her orders.'
 
 XI OR POLLIE'S PROS A TION 303 
 
 ' Oh, mother, don't leave me.' 
 
 ' I will only tell her to say that neither of 
 us will be down, that you are not well, and 
 that I have retired for the night. She can 
 bring up a cup of tea, which is all that either 
 of us is likely to need.'
 
 CIlAl'Ti: R XI 1 
 
 \Vni:x licrtram Devcrcux, who had waited 
 patiently for the chatelaine's appearance, re- 
 ceived the intimation that she would not 
 appear a^^ain that night, that Miss Pollie 
 being indisposed, he was requested to order 
 in dinner, hr. was considerably astonished. 
 He addressed himself mechanicalK' to his 
 solitary meal, but after an absent, desultory 
 fashion and w ilh less than his ordinary appe- 
 tite, lie fail(^d to understand or account for 
 the sudden seizure. She had walked with 
 him to the outer gate in iIk- morning, had 
 patted his horse's neck, app.u-ently as well 
 and handsome as ever she was in her life. 
 \\'h\- then this astonishing change for the 
 worse? The whole thing was ve.xatious and 
 disappointing in the last degnx'. lie would 
 go over to the barracks, smoke his cigar, and
 
 CHAP. XII THE CROOKED STICK 305 
 
 read his letters. A chat with old Gateward 
 would be better than a solitary evening in 
 the drawing-room. 
 
 Carrying over his mails, the young man 
 lit a cigar and wended his way to the barrack- 
 room. Mr. Gateward was out; the store- 
 keeper was in the store writing up his accounts ; 
 so he threw his letters upon the large dining- 
 room table and commenced to sort them with 
 a stronpf sense of ill-treatment. 
 
 The first that attracted his notice was like 
 the one which he had described as a cousin's 
 to his unsuspecting jianct-e. He opened it 
 hastily ; his brow clouded and his face grew 
 dark as he commenced to devour rather than 
 read the contents. 'Confound the woman!' 
 he said with a fierce oath, before he had read 
 half a dozen lines ; ' she was born to be my 
 ruin, I believe, and by — ! she has managed 
 it this time.' 
 
 This was her letter. 
 
 Wynton Hall, 9//; August 18S-. 
 
 Bertram Devereux — When you learn that I have 
 written by this mail to Miss Devereux explaining all, and 
 that she has received my letter, your wrath will be bitter 
 against me. N'iiiiporte. I know you as well, aye, better 
 
 X
 
 3o6 THE CROOKED STICK niAr. 
 
 than you know yourscU". The wound to your vanity will 
 be sore, your spirit will chafe, nay, agonise for a time, 
 but your ultimate good will result directly from this 
 iclaircisscment. 
 
 Now look me in the face, mentally, and say, what is 
 this thing that you have been proposing to do? To 
 marry an innocent, unsophisticated girl, partly for her 
 beauty, partly for her money ; to desert and betray me, 
 who have loved you long, truly, wildly well ; and to pre- 
 tend to yourself that you were going to be happy — yes, 
 happy ! ha ! ha ! 
 
 No, Bertram Devereux, it is not in you. You have 
 deceived yourself as well as her. You would have 
 cheated me, but the attempt has failed. You know in 
 your heart, or rather in your inmost consciousness, that 
 you are incapable of love, pure, unsullied, constant — 
 such as the poets sing of; such as this young girl, doubt- 
 less, has brought to you. In the maelstrom of London 
 life, under the spell of old associations, you would have 
 fallen as you have fallen before, and dragged others with 
 you. In that hour I am the only one who has power 
 over you. Is it not so? And my hand withdrawn from 
 the helm, your bark and its inmates would have gone 
 down into dc|)ths unfathomable. Angel or demon, I, 
 and I alone, am (lualified to act as your guardian. Elude 
 my power, and you are lost, irrevocably and eternally. 
 
 I sec from the papers that old Walter Devereux is 
 dead, and lias left you an income, which, though not 
 large, ought to suffice for your reasonable needs. So 
 lake my advice once more ; soyez bon enfant ; cjuit the 
 wild country of your banishment ; make your adieux with 
 the best grace you may to these Arcadian relatives ; and
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 307 
 
 return to a society where you have been missed — strange 
 to say — and to a civilised hfe amid people that under- 
 stand you. Among those who are ready to welcome the 
 returned wanderer will most likely be your true friend 
 as of yore, Sybil de Wynton. 
 
 He went patiently through his letters 
 after reading this one, with a countenance 
 which gave but little clue to the nature of 
 the communications. One business-appear- 
 ing epistle in round, legal handwriting he 
 put aside and re-read. He then lighted a 
 fresh cigar, and for nearly an hour remained 
 in deep meditation before he sought his 
 room. There he employed a portion of the 
 night in arranging his effects, so as to be 
 ready for that departure on the morrow upon 
 which he had determined. 
 
 Mrs. Devereux did not appear at the 
 breakfast table, but as he walked to and fro 
 along the lagoon path, smoking the matutinal 
 cigar, he saw her come into the garden. He 
 threw down his cigar, and at once went to 
 meet her. 
 
 She stopped a few paces ere she came to 
 him, and looking at him with a sad, reproach- 
 ful gaze, said, ' Oh, Bertram, what is this you
 
 3oS THE CROOKED STICK cuai-. 
 
 have done to us ? Did wc deserve this at 
 your hands ? ' 
 
 ' My dearest AuiU Mary,' he said, ad- 
 vancinc: and takiiiLr her hand with a show of 
 natural feehn^^ which she could not resent, 
 ' I cannot justify myself wholly, but it is due 
 to me that I should be permitted to explain. 
 All is over, I know, between your daughter 
 and myself; still I do not wish her to think 
 worse of me than is needful. When I won 
 her love I pledy;ed my word to her in L^ood 
 faith and sincerity to do all that a man misj^ht 
 to [)romote her happiness. Whether I should 
 have kept that resolution God knows, but I 
 should have given my whole being to the 
 task. 
 
 ' I)y a fatal mischance she has been made 
 acquainted with a dark chajJter in my lilc. 
 1 tl(j not excuse il, but it is such as many 
 men who show fairly Ix-fore the worKl kc:ep 
 locked away in secret cabinets. No doubt 1 
 deceived Polli(! in denying the existence of 
 former [massages of so compromising a nature ; 
 but 1 thought myself justified in keeping the 
 whol(^ thing from her jjure mind. I think so 
 still. And now,' he said, with a return to his
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 309 
 
 old charm of manner, ' I fear that nothing 
 remains but to thank you fervently for the 
 kindness with which you have always treated 
 me, in sickness and in health. I owe my 
 life to your tender nursing. Corindah will 
 be amongst my purest, happiest memories to 
 my life's end.' 
 
 By this time they had reached the house. 
 Entering the old dining-room, Bertram threw 
 himself into a chair, and Mrs. Devereux took 
 her seat near him. 
 
 * No words can describe, Bertram,' said 
 Mrs. Devereux, with softened air, ' how 
 grieved I feel that we should part in this 
 manner, I have always looked upon you as 
 a near relative ; latterly I have regarded 
 you as a son. It is unspeakably sad to me 
 to think that all is over — that henceforth we 
 must be as complete strangers, as if we had 
 never met.' 
 
 ' And how little I thought yesterday that 
 this would be my last day at Corindah ! ' he 
 said half musingly. ' And yet it is best so. 
 As if in mockery of my position, I have just 
 been left an income by an old grand-uncle 
 which will enable me to return to England
 
 ;io 
 
 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 and more or less take my former place in 
 society.' 
 
 * 1 am sincerely glad for your sake,' she 
 said warmly, 'and I know Pollic will be so 
 also. We could not have borne that you 
 should leave Corindah to c^o we knew not 
 where. Now we shall have no fear on that 
 score.' 
 
 ' 1 should like to see her once before we 
 part for ever, if you would consent,' he said 
 pleadingly — ' if it were but to hear her say 
 that she forgives me.' 
 
 'No, Bertram!' said the matron Hrmly, if 
 sorrowfully. ' Such a meeting would answer 
 no good end. \'()u have had forgiveness. 
 She will never harbour a l)iLter thought, 
 believt^ me. She has overcome her ln"st 
 natural feeling of resentment, such as any 
 Wf)man WDuld feel who had been deceived 
 b)- the man she lovtxl. luil she will grieve 
 over the circumstances which led to your 
 estrangement ; she will pity and forgive one 
 so near her heart as you have been.' 
 
 It I may not sec lur, will yon jet her 
 nrad a firewttll htllcr which I will lca\-e with 
 you .'' Surely it is not necessary lo tlcbar me
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 311 
 
 from the humblest felon's privilege — that of 
 defence before condemnation.' 
 
 ' She shall have your letter. I have no 
 intention of being in the least degree harsh, 
 Bertram, but it is by her own wish that I 
 decline an interview. Our paths will hence- 
 forth lie separate. We shall pray for your 
 welfare. You have a powerful will. Oh, 
 may God guide you to use it aright ! Your 
 welfare will always concern us ; but in this 
 world we shall meet no more. And now 
 farewell ! May God bless and keep you, and 
 forgive you even as you are forgiven by me 
 and my poor child ! ' 
 
 He wrung the kindly, high-souled matron's 
 hand in silence. An unwonted Qrlisteninor in 
 his dark eyes showed the depth to which his 
 feelings were stirred, and if there ever was a 
 moment in which Bertram Devereux truly 
 repented of the sins of the past and vowed 
 amendment of life in the future, that was the 
 hour and the minute. 
 
 It was shortly after this interview that he 
 held a colloquy with Mr. Gate ward, and rode 
 over to Wannonbah, with a black boy behind 
 him, who duly led back Guardsman. He 

 
 312 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 had apparently arranged for the transmis- 
 sion of his luggage, inasmuch as the port- 
 manteaux, three in number, were taken on by 
 the coach when that indispensable vehicle 
 arrived in due course. Next morning it 
 was announced by Mr. Gateward to the 
 storekeeper and other employees of the 
 station generally that Mr. Devereux liad 
 been left a fortune, which he had to go 
 'home' to claim, owing to law mailers and 
 other details not comprehensible by ordinary 
 intelligence. 
 
 • 1 le'll be back afore next shearing,' quolh 
 one of the boundary riders. ' Leastwa)s I 
 know I should if I was in his place.' 
 
 'He'll be back,' replied Mr. Gateward 
 oracularly, with an expression of countenance 
 at once severe and impenetrable, ' when he 
 docs come back. If he shouldn't turn u[> at 
 all, I don't know as it's any business of ours. 
 'I'here's as good men left bdiiiul, aiul would 
 be if there were a dozen like him off l)y the 
 next mail-steamer.' 
 
 « • • . , 
 
 Those who are of opinion that provincial 
 gossip, along with all othc-r Hrilish tradition-
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 313 
 
 ary institutions, is not faithfully reproduced 
 in British colonies, underrate the vivacious 
 ardour of bush society when presented with 
 a brand-new topic. No sooner was it 
 definitely announced that Mr. Devereux had 
 been seen on his way to the metropolis, en 
 route to England, with all his portmanteaux — 
 the same with which he had arrived — than a 
 perfect flood of conjecture and assertion arose. 
 
 ' He had come into a title and a fortune. 
 Of course he was not going to marry in the 
 colonies now, so he broke off his engagement 
 at once.' 
 
 ' It was Pollie's temper — nothing else — 
 that did it ; everybody knew how ungovern- 
 able that was. He couldn't stand it any 
 lonoer, thouQ-h Mrs. Devereux went down 
 on her knees to him.' 
 
 ' He wanted Mrs. D. to settle twenty thou- 
 sand on Polly on her wedding-day, which 
 she refused to do. He declared off at once.' 
 
 ' Pollie flirted so with that Mr. Ather- 
 stone ; no man could stand it. He found 
 them walking by moonlight or something, 
 and gave her notice at once.' ' Mr. Ather- 
 stone was in Queensland.' 'Oh, was he?
 
 314 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 Then it was some one else. It came to the 
 same thing.' 
 
 Mnally the torrent of popular criticism 
 subsided, to settle down into a trickling rill 
 of authentic information. It ran to the effect 
 that Bertram Devereux had been bequeathed 
 money by a relative, and had for some reason 
 or other left suddenly for I'^ngland. 
 
 1 1 was neither the next day nor the next 
 week after Bertram's departure that Pollie re- 
 appeared in her accustomed place, to lead her 
 (lid life at Corindah. A weary time of illness 
 supervened, and when the girl crept down to 
 the drawing-room sofa to be shawled, and 
 nursed, and [jetted for being graciously 
 plea.sed to be better, she was but the shadow 
 of her former self. As marked a mental 
 change had aj)parentl\' taken [)lace, for she 
 was mild antl patient, pitcously subdued in 
 tone and bearing. I low different from the 
 wilful spoilt beauty who had lurnetl so inan\' 
 heads, and who paid so liille heed to good 
 advic(^! 
 
 'You will have; a better (kuu'hter In the 
 time to come, mother,' she said, as she clasped 
 lh(* matron's neck with arms that were sadly
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 315 
 
 shrunken from their former lovely roundness. 
 ' I have had time to think over my past folly, 
 to know who are my truest friends;' and then 
 both wept and embraced each other, as is the 
 way of women — the mother thankful to 
 Heaven for the recovery of her child, the child 
 softened by suffering and chastened by the 
 near approach of the Death Angel. 
 
 Harold Atherstone had been far away in 
 Northern Queensland during^ this eventful 
 time. He had apparently needed stronger 
 excitement than the everyday life of a 
 prosperous, long-settled station ; so he had 
 elected to report upon an immense tract of 
 country west of the * Red Barcoo,' which, 
 taken up by a pioneer squatter some years 
 back, had passed into the hands of a syndicate, 
 of which he was a shareholder. 
 
 So, from one cause or another, it fell out 
 that Corindah seemed to be more solitary, 
 not to say monotoned, than it had ever been 
 before. The visitors who came were of the 
 occasional, transitory sort; all their old friends 
 seemed to have mysteriously vanished. The 
 Rev. Cyril Courtenay was the only one of 
 their Jiabititds who did not fail them. He
 
 3i6 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 made his montlily visitation, when, indeed, 
 Mrs. Devereux was more than usually glad 
 to see him. 
 
 He was sympathetic in liis manner, as 
 (Hvininsj- that sometliinnf unusual had affected 
 his friends. With tact, as well as sincerity, 
 he drew forth an admission of offief. This 
 done, he essayed to lead their thoughts to the 
 llealer of all mortal sorrow, the Bearer of 
 burdens, the Consoler in time of trouble. 
 He dwelt upon the unsatisfactory nature of 
 all earthly pleasures, the disappointment 
 inseparably connected with mere worldly 
 aspirations, the only sure hope of forgiveness 
 of sins, the need of repentance, the certainty 
 of peace. 
 
 As at the time of pain and anguish, of fear 
 and danger, the physician attains a status 
 which in the heedless hours of health is with- 
 held, so, in th(? hour of the nuiul's sickness, 
 the [jhysician of souls is welcomed and 
 revered. Urged to lengtlu;n his stay, the 
 Rev. Cyril gladly consentc:d to remain over 
 the ensuing Sunday. I lis ministrations, he 
 thought, had never been so apjjreciated 
 bcfont at Corindah. And when he (juitled
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 317 
 
 the locality his heart beat high with the 
 consciousness that he had aided the consola- 
 tion of the dearest friends and best supporters 
 of the Church in sicco, while a yet more 
 daring thought caused his colourless cheek to 
 burn and his pulses to throb with unwonted 
 speed. 
 
 The summer days grew longer and longer. 
 The fever heat of the season waxed more and 
 more intense. The still air grew tremulous 
 with the quivering, ardent sun-rays. Yet no 
 suggestion was made by Pollie to go to the 
 sea-side or to call the ocean breezes to aid 
 her recovered health. Her mother would 
 have rushed off directly the great event of 
 the year was over, but the girl would not 
 hear of it. 
 
 ' No, mother dear,' she said, ' I have 
 sinned and suffered. I have been wilful and 
 headstrong. Let me remain and mortify the 
 flesh for a season. You do not mind the 
 heat, I know, and I am strong enough now 
 to bear it in the dear old place where I was 
 born. We may have many a year to live 
 here together yet, and I may as well commence 
 to accustom myself to it.'
 
 3iS THE CROOKED STICK ciiai>. 
 
 So the two women hiid ihcir account to 
 remain patiently at home till the following 
 summer, and Pollie set resolutely to work to 
 utilise all her resources, natural and acquired. 
 She commenced to be more methodical in 
 the appointment of her time. She rose early 
 and took exercise in the fresh morning air, 
 before the sun had gained power — the truest 
 hygienic rule in the torrid zone. She read 
 and did needlework at appointed hours, and 
 resolutely set herself to perfect her knowledge 
 of French and German. She ' kept ujj ' her 
 music, vocal and instrumental, though it was 
 longr ere her voice recovered from a certain 
 tremulous tendenc)', far different from the 
 rich, full tones soaring upwards like the sky- 
 lark to perilous altitudes unharmed. She 
 rode rcgulai'K', or tlrove her mother out in 
 the lit/ht American carriaj^es which no station 
 is now without. .She visited the wives antl 
 children of the emi)loyees, showing a more 
 considerate and intcllimiiL interest in iheir 
 welfire than had been before observable. 
 
 ' M(jtlu:r,' said the; girl, as they sat to- 
 gether on the verandah in the waning 
 summer-time, when a south wintl sj)eeding
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 319 
 
 from the coast had unexpectedly cooled the 
 air, ' I won't say that I was never so happy 
 before ; but I don't think I ever was so fully 
 occupied. There is, no doubt, a sense of 
 relief and satisfaction to be gained when one 
 does what one can; I never thought I should 
 feel like this again,' 
 
 ' Let us have faith and patience, my 
 darling,' said the mother, looking into her 
 child's eyes with the measureless fondness of 
 earlier days, ' and happiness will still come to 
 us. Only persevere in the duties that lie 
 nearest to you. In His own good time God 
 will reward and bless you. After all, there 
 are many good things in this life yet 
 remaining.' 
 
 It was the late autumn when Harold 
 Atherstone returned from his far, wild jour- 
 neyings. A long-practised and trained bush- 
 man 'to the manner born,' he was familiar 
 with all the exigencies of the wildest wood- 
 craft. But from his appearance this expedi- 
 tion had been no child's play. Tanned and 
 swart, almost to Indian darkness, both 
 mother and daughter gazed at him in 
 astonishment. He had been down with
 
 320 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 lever and ague, ami was liaggard and worn 
 of aspect. He had even had a brush with 
 the blacks, he said, on one of the far out- 
 stations, and had managed to drop in for a 
 spear wound. I Ic was becoming quite a 
 scarred veteran, he averred. However, 
 save for a cicatrix to mark the trilling 
 occurrence, he was unharmed. Altogether, 
 though he had enjoyed the chances and 
 adventures of his pioneer life, he was very 
 glad to fmd himself within hail of Corindah 
 again. 
 
 'And we are so glad to have our old 
 1 laroKl back, I can tell you,' said Mrs. 
 Devereux. ' We missed him dreadfully all 
 the simimer, didn't we, Pollie? To be ill, 
 and weak, and lonely at the same time, is 
 hard to l^ear.' 
 
 l*()lli(; made an inaudible rei)ly to her 
 mother's cjuery, but as her eyes rested u[)on 
 the bronzed, athletic frame, and met the frank 
 gaze of the Australian, it may be that a 
 comparison, not wholly to his disadvantage, 
 passed through her mind. 
 
 ' It is the first time when there was trouble 
 at Corindah that I have been absent, I think,'
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 321 
 
 he said gently. ' You must manage to have 
 me more available in future.' 
 
 ' What reason is there for your risking 
 your life in that terrible Never Never 
 country?' said Mrs. Devereux. 'It is not 
 as if you needed to make any more money, 
 or had no one to care for you.' 
 
 ' One must do something with one's life,' 
 he said simply. ' I don't know that it greatly 
 mattered if that Myall's spear had gone 
 through me, as it did through poor William- 
 son. I had got very tired of an easy life at 
 Maroobil. I needed a strong change, and I 
 got it, I must say.' 
 
 ' It's positively wicked to talk in that way,' 
 said his hostess. ' However, now you have 
 come back, your friends must take care of 
 you and keep you among them. You look 
 dreadfully thin ; but I suppose you're not ill, 
 are you?' And then the kind creature looked 
 at him with the same anxiety in her face that 
 he remembered so well when he was a boy, 
 over whose accidents and offences she had 
 always mourned maternally. 
 
 ' If it comes to that, it seems to me that 
 no one looks very pink,' he returned play-
 
 322 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 fullv. ' Pollie's not wliat she used to be. 
 You look as if you had gone through another 
 nierht attack. And Bertram Devereux has 
 gone home .^ What has happened.'* I feel 
 abroad.' 
 
 'You are going to stay to-night, and your 
 old room is ready for you, of course,' Mrs. 
 Devereux answered. ' Do not allude to it 
 when Pollie comes down. (This young lady 
 had retired temporarily to her room.) I will 
 tell you all about it after tea.' 
 
 Harold Atherstone looked searchinerlv at 
 her, but held his peace. In a minute after- 
 wards Pollie appeared, looking, in spite of her 
 illness, so delicately lovely and overpowering, 
 after his long sojourn in the desert, that all 
 doubts and conjectures were jjut to tlight or 
 lost in the regained pleasure of seeing her 
 smile of wclrnmr and hearing the well- 
 remembered tones of her voice. 
 
 It was a hapi)y c:vtMiing. Aj).art from 
 ' love and love's sliarp woe ' there is such a 
 thing as friendship, pure and unalloyed, 
 between people of differing sexes. The 
 .sentiment ol lh(^se friends was deep and 
 sincere —founded upon sympathy, congenial
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 323 
 
 tasks, and the long experience of mutual 
 truth, loyalty, and affection. They were 
 honestly glad to see each other again. Love 
 temporarily divides friends, and, as it were, 
 elbows out all other claimants. But as its 
 fervour declines, the purer flame burns with 
 a deeper glow. As the years advance, the 
 fires of passion wax dim ; the altar reared 
 to friendship regains its votaries ; while the 
 more ornate and ephemeral edifice is too 
 often deserted, empty, and ungarnished. 
 
 Thus, at their pleasant evening meal, 
 all was mirthful interchange of news and 
 adventures since last the little party had met. 
 Harold's favourite wine of the remembered 
 brand was brought out as of old ; then Pollie 
 was persuaded to sing some of her oldest songs, 
 while Mrs. Devereux and their guest talked 
 confidentially in the verandah. It seemed 
 as if the happy old Corindah days had come 
 again, when no malign influence intervened ; 
 when, in Mrs. Devereux's eyes, all things 
 were peacefully tending towards the cherished 
 aspiration of her life. Finally, when the 
 parting hour — later than usual — arrived, each 
 secretly confessed to a sensation so nearly
 
 324 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 akin to the joy long since dci)arted from 
 their Hves, that not only wonder but even a 
 soupgon of hope was commingled with its 
 formation. 
 
 Harold Atherstonc had been placed fully 
 in possession of facts by Mrs. Devereux, as 
 they sat on the verandah in the hushed 
 southern night, while Pollie's sweet voice 
 trilled nightingale-like through the odorous 
 breath of the rose and the orange bloom. 
 He heard how she had been deceived, 
 wounded in her tenderest feelings, and was 
 now deserted and left desolate. When he 
 thought of her lying wearily on a l3ed of 
 sickness, wan and wasted, heart-sore and 
 despairing, he could not repress a malediction 
 upon the head of the; man who had received 
 such unstinted kindness at the hands of the 
 speaker, and had thus repaid It. 
 
 When the tale was fmished he took her 
 hand and pressed it silently. ' The poor 
 child has suffered deejjly,' he said; 'but 
 matters are best as they are. Who knows 
 but that deeper, more irrevocable misery 
 might have been h«r lot had she not Ix^en 
 warned in time .'* 1 uKnirn over the change
 
 XII 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 325 
 
 in her, but she is returning to her old ways, 
 and the memory of her sorrow will become 
 yet more faint. Her youth and pride, with 
 the resources at her command, will enable 
 her to divest herself of all trace of what was 
 one of the inevitable mistakes of youth.' 
 
 'You think then that she acted rightly in 
 refusing to see him again ? ' 
 
 ' Unquestionably ; no other course was 
 possible. I never thought him worthy of 
 her. But he was her choice, and as a man 
 of honour I could not disparage him, even 
 had I any other grounds than those of mere 
 taste and prejudice, which I had not. The 
 event has proved that my instinctive distrust 
 was correct. I need not tell you how I 
 rejoice that she is again free and unfettered.' 
 
 He said no more. The summer had 
 passed. The nights became longer, colder. 
 The calm, peaceful, autumnal season, which 
 in this south land brings no fall of the leaf, 
 commenced to herald the mild but well- 
 marked winter of the plains. It was the 
 Indian summer of their old, peaceful Corindah 
 life. They rode, and walked, and drove 
 together, the three friends, much as in the
 
 326 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 old days before the advent of the distLirbing 
 stranger from beyond the sea. Then Harold 
 Atherstone had been the favourite companion 
 of the girl, the trusted friend and counsellor 
 of the elder woman. The hoii z'ietix temps 
 had returned. Once more the heavens were 
 bright, and the storm-cloud had disappeared 
 with the tempest which had so nearly wrecked 
 the frail bark of a woman's happiness. 
 
 And yet both were changed. The girl, 
 mild and pensive, was almost humble in 
 mien. All her wilfulness and obstinacy 
 had departed. A deeper, more reasoning 
 spirit of advance and inquiry seemed to 
 possess her, to mould her every action and 
 thought. He, on the other hand, had ac- 
 quiretl broader views of life, and had 
 seriously modified many of his earlier 
 opinions. 
 
 Hut their parting was near. Harold re- 
 ceived a telegram, without warning or notice, 
 which necessitated instant action. His 
 presence was again rccjuired at the far North, 
 wh(,'re everything was going on as badly as 
 could be imagined. Thr i:hi(:f managc:r lay 
 dying of fever, the blacks were troublesome,
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 327 
 
 and becoming emboldened, had commenced 
 to scatter off the cattle. To mend matters, 
 a drought of unprecedented severity had set 
 in. 'If Mr. Atherstone did not go out,' 
 the telegram stated, ' the whole enterprise 
 might be wrecked, and ruinous loss accrue 
 to shareholders.' 
 
 At first he rebelled, swore stoutly, indeed, 
 that he would not go. He would let things 
 take their course. He was happy where he 
 was, and there was no reason why he should 
 risk his life and tempt again the dangers of 
 the Waste. However, cooler reflection de- 
 cided him to take the field as a duty to his 
 comrades in the enterprise, as well as to the 
 shareholders, who had risked their money 
 perhaps on the guarantee of his known judg- 
 ment and reputation for management. 
 
 He made his preparations quickly, as was 
 his wont, bade farewell to Corindah and its 
 inmates, and set off on the long, hazardous 
 journey. 
 
 Somehow Corindah seemed more lonely 
 than ever. He had been very kind and 
 thoughtful as a brother, but no word of 
 warmer admiration had passed his lips.
 
 328 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 Pollic pursued her tasks and occupations 
 with accustomed resfularitv, but was more 
 unequal in her spirits than ever. One day 
 her mother surprised her in tears. A letter 
 had been received from Harold, and the 
 tone of it had aroused her from habitual 
 indifferentism. 
 
 ' Why is he always so studiously cool and 
 brotherly .^ ' she said, with something of her 
 old impetuosity. ' Does he think that 1 am 
 likely to misconstrue his feelingfs.'^ That he 
 requires to keep a guard over his expres- 
 sions } Hut I know how it is. He has met 
 someone else in that far country. He spoke 
 of some I'^nglish families settled there. 1 
 have lost his love, which once was so truly 
 mine. I despised it then. Now I am 
 rightly punishetl by contempt and de- 
 sertion.' 
 
 Mrs. Devereux gained from this little 
 speech a fresh and accurate insight into the 
 stal<; of her daughter's lu;ari. Ii ucnl lo 
 confirm the suspicion which she had latelv 
 entertained that the recent companionship ol 
 Harold Atherstone, the d.iil)- e.\peri('iice of 
 his strong, true character, had not been with-
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 329 
 
 out its effect. He had come most opportunely 
 to cheer their loneHness. His manner had 
 somewhat altered, too, of late, they had re- 
 marked ; had become more gay and care- 
 lessly mirthful, more easy and conventional. 
 His travels and adventures had supplied him 
 with a larger field of observation, had added 
 to his conversational powers, or else he had 
 exerted himself exceptionally for their enter- 
 tainment. 
 
 His sense of humour seemed to have de- 
 veloped, and withal there were occasional 
 touches of tenderness and deep feeling 
 which, always latent, had been rarely ex- 
 hibited. Both women confessed that they 
 had never done justice to the versatile force 
 of his character ; never had they dreamed he 
 could exert fascination in addition to his 
 power of compelling respect. 
 
 And now he was gone thousands of 
 miles away^ — the true friend, the gallant 
 gentleman, the loyal lover — to brave the risks 
 of the Waste, perhaps die there, as had done 
 many a brave man before him ; perhaps to 
 be attracted by some newer, fresher face, 
 never to return to his old allegiance. The
 
 330 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 thuULilu was bitter. No wonder that Pollie's 
 tears flowed fast. 
 
 Harold Atherstone had exhibited his 
 habitual self-control in quitting Corindah for a 
 long absence without making sign or giving 
 expression to his feelings. He had carefully 
 considered the situation, had come to certain 
 conclusions, had decided upon his course of 
 action. His feelincrs were unchanoed with 
 respect to Pollic It had been hard to bear, 
 almost unendurabK torturing, to know that 
 she preferred another ; to witness her bright 
 glances and hear her tender tones directed 
 towards one whom in his heart he deemed 
 unworthy of her. In his chivalric eener- 
 osity he felt this to be the crowning bitter- 
 ness of the whole. Unable to bear it longer, 
 he elected to join tliis dangerous enterprise, 
 reckless of life and health, hoping only foi 
 ' surcease of sorrow ' in ])(M-il .nul privation. 
 
 P)Ut on his return he found that the en- 
 chanted portal had been opened, the captive 
 j)rincess liberated. The glamour had fallen' 
 from her <\<'s. The magic fetters had been 
 unloosed. ilr could j)icture the scorn and 
 indignation wiili which she had renounced
 
 XII 
 
 OR POLLIE'S PROBATION y:>\ 
 
 Bertram Devereux for ever. From his life- 
 long knowledge of her character he believed 
 that she had freed herself from the memory 
 of his treason as from something foul and 
 revolting ; that it had fallen from her pure 
 soul as earth from a golden robe ; that she 
 had returned instinctively to the simple 
 loyalty and freedom of her youth. From 
 his experience of life and woman's nature he 
 foresaw that she would turn to him as to one 
 of the lost ideals of her girlhood, if only he 
 were not precipitate and premature. These 
 were not the faults with which men charged 
 Harold Atherstone. So he returned silent 
 and self-contained to the far North. 
 
 His unswerving courage and iron will 
 stood him in good stead in this supreme 
 hazard. 
 
 When Harold returned from the far 
 country, his friends at Corindah were un- 
 affectedly glad to see him. Pollie especially 
 was so radiant in renewed health and beauty 
 that he felt irresistibly impelled to ask the 
 momentous question. 
 
 He chose an appropriate time and place 
 — one of the star-bright, cloudless nights
 
 332 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 which in the southern hemisphere so glorify 
 the majestic soHtude of nature. Low-toned 
 and musical was the whispering breeze 
 which, stealing over the ' lone Chorasmian 
 waste,' stirred the slumbering lemon sprays 
 and murmured to the love-fraught roses as 
 they walked by the margin of the lakelet, all 
 silver-bright in the wondrous transparent 
 atmosphere. It seemed as though, after the 
 rude experiences of his desert life, he had re- 
 entered paradise. He was so delighted to 
 return, so charmed with the warm welcome 
 accorded to him, that he would never more 
 return to the wilderness. He would indeed 
 promise and guarantee to do so, but on one 
 condition only. Need we say what thai 
 was, or that the concession was made ^ 
 
 'Are you sure that you think me worthy 
 of your love, after all my folly ? ' murmured 
 she. ' Hut 1 have suffered — you will know 
 how much. I have repented, and, dearest 
 Harold, I will try to be ihc woman you would 
 have mc to Ije.' 
 
 ' There has been ijut one woman in the 
 world for me,' \\v. said, clasping her to his 
 heart. ' She is mine now for ever ; life holds
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 333 
 
 no Other prize henceforth that I will stretch 
 out my hand to seize.' 
 
 What more remains to tell ? Pollie's pro- 
 bation was ended. Her wayward, errant 
 woman's heart, ' with feelings and fancies 
 like birds on the wing,' had found rest, relief, 
 and safety on the manly breast of Harold 
 Atherstone. Henceforth there was no fear, 
 uncertainty or anxiety. She felt a wavering 
 dread at times lest he, requiring so much 
 love (as she had gauged his temperament), 
 would find her nature unequal to the de- 
 mand. But, as generally happens in similar 
 cases, this proved to be a groundless appre- 
 hension. 
 
 As for Mrs. Devereux, she was prepared 
 to sing 'Nitnc dimittis.' Her cherished hope 
 had been realised. Maroobil and Corindah 
 in conjunction would make a princely pro- 
 perty, no matter how many there might be to 
 inherit it. In every relation of life Harold 
 was a tower of strength. Now she had a son 
 whom she had loved since the days of his 
 fearless childhood. Now was she proud, 
 happy, thankful. Providence did sometimes 
 settle affairs of mortals aright. She had only
 
 334 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 to thank God humbly on her bended knees 
 that night, to pra)- with tears and sobs for her 
 darling's happiness, believing in her inmost 
 heart that it was now assured and lasting. 
 
 And she was happy — perfectly, utterly, 
 completely, if there be such a thing in this 
 world below. They lived for the greater 
 part of the year at Maroobil or Corindah, 
 choosinL^ by preference the quiet home life, 
 where they had full enjoyment of each other's 
 society, varied only by the ordinary demands 
 upon their hos[jiiality, which they were care- 
 ful to reco_L;nise fully as of old. Maroobil 
 was voted to be the pleasantest visiting-place 
 in the West, and Mrs. Harold Atherstone the 
 most perfect hostess. 
 
 ' What a fortunate thing that you were 
 able lo sell out of that horrid Queensland 
 country so advantageously ! ' said Mrs. Ather- 
 stone a month after their marriage, when, 
 resting under the shadows of Mount Wellinir- 
 ton, they absorbed rather than admired the 
 charms of the varied Tasmanian landscape. 
 ' 1 shall never forget m\ fears on your account 
 during that last journey,* 
 
 ' 1 take great cretlit hjr not conuniiling
 
 xii OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 335 
 
 myself before I started,' he said. ' It grieved 
 me sore, but I held out. I was mortally 
 afraid, too, that you might have another pro- 
 posal in my absence. I suppose you hadn't ? ' 
 ' Well, not quite a proposal, only from Mr. 
 
 ' Why, you insatiable woman, you don't 
 mean to say that ? Tell me this moment 
 who it was. Why didn't I know before ? ' 
 
 ' Don't look so fierce, and I'll confess 
 everything. It is not much. But Mr. 
 Courtenay, the Rev. Cyril, did call while you 
 were away.' 
 
 ' Confound him ! The smooth-faced hum- 
 bug ! ' growled Harold, twirling his mous- 
 tache. ' However, " Better men than he," 
 etc. Well, go on, Circe ' 
 
 ' None of your heathen innuendoes, or I 
 stop. But really, love, the poor fellow said 
 he had been left a competence by an uncle, 
 and that as he could not now be accused of 
 mercenary feelings, he wished me to know, 
 etc. ; we should be able to do so much good 
 with his means and those Providence had 
 gifted me with. Of course I explained gently 
 that it could not be. I felt quite clever, I
 
 336 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 assure you. I had only to alter what I said 
 to Mr. MacCalluni a very little. It would 
 have served you right, sir. if I had taken him 
 after vour Icavincr me in that wav.' 
 
 ' H — m, you won't be left much in future, 
 madam, as you are not to be trusted.' 
 
 • • • • • 
 
 Brian Devereux Atherstone and Harold 
 the second were respectively three years and 
 one year old when, the season being a good 
 one, and wool above the average, it was 
 decided by the collective wisdom of the family 
 that a suitable opportunity had occurred for 
 the long -promised visit to Europe. Mrs, 
 Devereux had no objection to ofk;r, except 
 that the dear children might not in all respects 
 be benefited. But this was overruled. Sta- 
 tistics were quoted to the effect liiat on board 
 the P. and O. and IMessageries steamers 
 children were stronger, happier, and longer 
 lived than on shore. I'iiially the project was 
 carrieil out, Mr. Gateward being left in full 
 possession of the station for the three years 
 which il was intended thai the lour should 
 embrace. 
 
 Why at.lcin])l to porlray here with what
 
 .XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 337 
 
 supreme, almost unutterable, delight two cul- 
 tured persons of congenial tastes and fresh, 
 unworn mental palates savoured the intel- 
 lectual banquets placed before them ? Again 
 and again did Mrs. Atherstone declare that 
 her cup of happiness was filled to the brim, 
 even running over. 
 
 On one of those elysian days, as Pollie sat 
 dreamily under the columns of the Temple of 
 Poseidon, while around them stretched the 
 green plain of Paestum, Harold, who had 
 been reading Galignani with a Briton's never- 
 failing interest, handed the paper to her with 
 a pencil-marked paragraph. 
 
 Her cheek paled for an instant, then 
 glowed more brightly, her eye flashed, her 
 head was raised, as she ran over the following 
 extract from a society paper : — •' We observe 
 with regret that the demise of Sir Ralph de 
 Wynton at his seat, Wynton Hall, Hereford- 
 shire, took place on Thursday last. The 
 announcement will not surprise many who 
 were acquainted with the sombre family 
 history of the last male heir of this ancient 
 race. The deceased baronet had been for 
 many years a hopeless invalid. It was be-
 
 338 THE CROOKED STICK chap. 
 
 licved, iiKlcctl, that he was phiced in confine- 
 ment at those periods when he was supposed 
 to be travelHng abroad. Owing to differences 
 which had arisen at an early period of their 
 union, it was generally supposed that Lady 
 de Wvnton, who resided chiellv at Morence, 
 had arranged a virtual separation. The 
 estates, with all property, real and personal, 
 excepting only her ladyshiiVs ample jointure, 
 pass to Colonel de W) lUun ul the Lile Guards.' 
 
 ' So, poor thing, she has been freed from 
 her fetters at last!' said the fair reader, as 
 she handed back the paper with a smile of 
 loving content and absolute trust to her hus- 
 band. 'She will now l)e free to marry 
 [Bertram, and 1 inist sincerely they will be 
 ha|)py. I always pitied her h'om my heart, 
 and thought it a case of cruel wrong and 
 injustice.' 
 
 'H — m!' replied Harold, with cautious 
 non-commillal. " 1 suppose very probable. 
 "More sinned against," etc. Imu 1 don't 
 wonder at your sympathy. You are under 
 greater obligations to Sybil, Lady de Wynton, 
 than to any living woman, the grandnunn 
 only e.\cej)ted.'
 
 XII OR POLLIE'S PROBATION 339 
 
 ' Obligations indeed ! Why ? ' she de- 
 mands, in much astonishment. ' Oh ! I know 
 — though it's Hke your cool audacity to say 
 so — because but for her I should have gone 
 through the wood, and through the wood, and 
 taken — as I fully believe and acknowledge 
 now — " The Crooked Stick " at last.' 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Abbey (E. A.) . 
 Abbot (F. E.) . 
 Abbott (E. A.) 5, 16, ■^•^, 
 Adams (Sir F. O.) . 
 Addison . 
 Msop. 
 Agassiz(L.) 
 AiNGER(Rev.A.) 4, s, 19, 
 Ainslie(A. DO- 
 AiRvCSirG. B.) 
 AiTKEN (Mary C.) . 
 AiTKEN (Sir W.) 
 Albemarle (Earl of) 
 Aldous (J. C. P.) . 
 Aldrich (T. B.) 
 Alexander (C. F.) . 
 Alexander (T.) 
 Alexander (Bisliop) 
 Allbutt (T. C.) 
 Allen (G.) 
 Allingham (W.) 
 Amiel(H.F.) . 
 Anderson (A.') . 
 Anderson (L.). 
 Anderson (Dr. McCall) 
 Andrews (C. M.) . 
 Andrews (Dr. Thomas) 
 Appleton (T. G.) 
 Archer-Hind (R. D.) 
 Arnold (M.) 9, 16, 22, 24, 
 Arnold (Dr. T.) 
 Arnold (W.T.) 
 Ashley (W. J.). 
 Atkinson (G. F.) . 
 Atkinson (J. B.) 
 Atkinson (Rev. J. C.) 
 Attwell (H.) . 
 Austin (Alfred) 
 Autenrieth ((jeorg) 
 AWDRY (F.) 
 
 Bacon (Francis) 4, 
 
 Badenoch (L. N.) . 
 Baines (Rev. E.) . 
 Baker (SirS. W.)4,34,35 
 Balch (Elizabeth) . 
 Baldwin (Prof. J. M.) 
 Balfour (F. M.) . 
 Balfour (J. B.) 
 Ball (J.) . 
 Ball fW. Piatt) 
 Ball (W. W. R.) . 
 Ballance (C. A.) 
 Barker (G. F.) 
 Barker (Lady) . 2, 9, 
 Barlow (J.) 
 Barnard (C.) . 
 Barnes (R. H.) 
 Barnes (W.) . 
 Barnett(E. a.) 
 Bartholomew (J. G.) 
 Bartlett (J.) . 
 Barwell (R.) . 
 Bastable (Prof. C. F.) 
 Bateman (J.) . 
 Bates (K. L.) . 
 Bateson (W.) 
 Bath (Marquis of) 
 
 page 
 
 13. 44 
 
 36,39 
 
   34 
 22, 24 
 
 I3> 44 
 
 3 
 
 24>3Q 
 
   17 
 
 3, 32 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 SS 
 16 
 23 
 9 
 39 I 
 26 
 
 7 I 
 23 
 
 3 
 
 16 
 
 2 
 
 26 
 
 II 
 
 3' 
 
 43 
 
 43 
 
 4i36 
 
 II 
 
 II j 
 
 3 I 
 
 7 
 
 2 
 
 1, 44 
 23 
 
 6, 2J 
 
 8 
 
 44 
 
 2, 24 
 46 
 39 
 
 43,44 
 
 J3 
 
 30. 31 
 
 6,7 
 
 7 
 
 44 
 
 6 
 
 4, 26 
 26 
 31 
 
 43, 44 
 45 
 32 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 9, 35 
 
 3 
 16 
 
 6 
 32 
 
 4 
 22 
 
 6 
 34 
 
 page 
 
 • 39 
 4 
 
 5, II 
 7 
 
 35 
 
 29, 
 
 II, 16 
 
 Bather (.\rchdeacon) 
 
 Baxter (L.) 
 
 Beesly (Mrs.) . 
 
 Behrens (H.) . 
 
 Bexedikt(R.) 
 
 Benham (Rev. W.) 6, 23, 24, 38 
 
 Benson (Archbishop) 
 
 Benson (W.A. S.) 
 
 Berg(L.). 
 
 Berlioz (H.) . 
 
 Bernard (C. E.) 
 
 Bernard (J. H.) 
 
 Bernard (H. M.) 
 
 Bernard (M.) . 
 
 Bernabd(T. D.) 
 
 Berners (J.) . 
 
 Besant (W.) . 
 
 Bettanv (G. T.) 
 
 Bickerton (T. H.) 
 
 Bigelow(M. M.) 
 
 Bik6las(D.) . 
 
 BiNNiE (Rev. W.) 
 
 Birks (T. R.) . 6, 
 
 BjORNSON (B ) . 
 
 Black (W.) . 
 Blackburne (E.) 
 Blackie (J. S.) 
 Blake (J. F.) . 
 Blake (W.) . 
 Blakiston (J. R.) 
 Blanford(H. F.) 
 Blanpord (W. T.) 
 Blennerhassett (R.) 
 Blomfield (R.) 
 Blyth(A.W.). 
 Bohm-Bawerk (Prof.) 
 
 BOLDREWOOD (Rolf ) 
 
 Bonar (J.) 
 Bond (Rev. J.). 
 Boole (G.) 
 Booth (C.) 
 Bosanquet (B.) 
 Bose (W. p. du) 
 Boughton i'G. H.) 
 Boutmv (E.) . 
 Bowen(H.C.). 
 Bower (F. O.) . 
 Bowes (R.) 
 Bradley (A W.) 
 Brett (R. B ) . 
 Bridges (J. A.). 
 Bright (H. A.). 
 Bright (John) . 
 Brimley(G.) . 
 Brodie (Sir B.). 
 Brodribb (W. j.) 
 Brooke (Sir J.) 
 Brooke (S. A.).i5, 16 
 Brooks (Bishop) 
 Brown (Prof. C.) 
 Brown (J. A.) . 
 Brown (Dr. James) 
 Brown (T. E.) . 
 Browne fT. H.B.) 
 Browne (Sir T. 
 Brunton (Dr. T. Lauder) 
 Bryce (James) . . i 
 
 • 39 
 2, 35 
 
 • 9 
 4 
 4 
 
 • 30 
 6, 32 
   14 
 
 • 39 
 
 • 13 
 
 4 
 7 
 
 • 27 
 
 • 14 
 
 • 19 
 
 • 39 
 36, 39 
 
 • 19 
 
 4 
 4 
 
 22 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 9 
 
 32 
 
 28 
 
 44 
 10 
 
 13 
 32 
 
 19 
 33 
 36 
 30 
 
 35 
 
 o, 35 
 40 
 
 4, 44 
 14 
 
 29 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 II 
 
 22 
 
 10 
 
 34 
 22 
 
 7 
 43 
 4 
 ,24,38,39 
 
 39, 44 
 31 
 
 15, 
 
 PAGB 
 
 • 23 
 
 6, 34 
 II, 12 
 
 • 27 
 
   46 
 
 4, 22, 24 
 
 • 35 
 . 16 
 
 • 34 
 I 
 
   19 
 16, 23, 
 
 . IX 
 
 33, 
 
 43 
 42: 
 35. 
 16 
 
 39' 
 4 
 3S 
 24. 
 34- 
 26 
 
 44 
 16 
 
 9,30 
 
 46 
 
 36 
 
 44 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 13 
 24 
 
 39 
 34 
 
 Buchheim (C. A.) . 
 Buckland (A.). 
 Buckley (A. B ) 
 Bucknill (Dr. J.C ) 
 BUCKTON (G. B.) . 
 BUNYAN . 
 
 Burdett(C. W. B.). 
 
 Burgon^J.W.) 
 
 Burke (E.) 
 
 Burn (R.). 
 
 Burnett (F. Hodgson) 
 
 Burns 
 
 Bury (J. B.) . 
 
 Butcher (Prof. S. H.) 
 
 15, 22, 
 Butler (A. J.). . 15, 
 Butler (Rev. G.) . 
 Butler (Samuel) . 
 Butler (Archer) 
 Butler (Sir W. F.) . 
 Buxton (Mrs. S.) . 
 Byron 
 
 Cairnes (J. E.) 
 Cajori (F.) 
 Caldecott (R.) 
 Calderon 
 Calderwood (H.) . 
 Calderwood (W. L.) 
 Calvert (Rev. A.) . 
 Cameron (V. L.) 
 Campbell (D. H ) . 
 Campbell (Sir G.) . . 4 
 Campbell (J. D.) . 4, 16 
 Campbell (J. F.) . . 44 
 Campbell (Dr. J. M.) . 39 
 Campbell (Prof. Lewis) 5, 15 
 Cantillon . . .33 
 Capes (W.W.). . . 15 
 Carles (W. R.) . . 44 
 Carlyle(T.) ... 4 
 Carmarthen (Lady) 15 
 
 Carnarvon (Earl of) . 43 
 Carnot(N. L. G.) . . 32 
 Carpenter (iSishop) . 39 
 Carr(J.C.) . . 2,16 
 Carroll (Lewis) . 30,45 
 Carter (R. Brudenell) . 27 
 CASSEL(Dr. D.) . . II 
 Cattel (J. McK.) . 30,31 
 Cautley(G. S.) . . 16 
 Cazenove (J. G.) . . 39 
 Chalmers (J. B.) . .9 
 Chalmers (M. D.) . . 34 
 Chapman (Elizabeth R.) . 16 
 ChappelhW ). . . 28 
 Chase (Rev. F. H.). . 37 
 Chasseresse (Diana) . 35 
 Chaucer . . . .22 
 Cheetha.m (Archdeacon). 37 
 Cherry (R.R.) . . 14 
 Cheyne (C. H. H.) . .3 
 Cheyne (T. K.) . . 36 
 Christie (W. D.) . . 23 
 CHURCH(Pl0f A. H.) . 7. 
 
 Church (Rev. A. J.) 4,35,43 
 Church (F.J. ). .15,24,43 
 Church (Dean). 4,5,22,37,39
 
 48 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Clare (G.) 
 Clark (J W.)- 
 Clark (L.) 
 Clark (R ) 
 Clark (S.) 
 ClakkIT. M.). 
 Clarke (C. B.). 
 Cleveland (Duchess) 
 Clifford (E^.) 
 Clifford (\V. K.) 
 Clifford (Mrs. W 
 Clolgh (A H.) 
 
 COBUEN (R ) . 
 
 Cohen (J. B.) . 
 
 CoHN (L.). 
 
 Cole (G. A. G.) 
 
 COLKNSO(J.W.) 
 
 Coleridoe(C. R.) . 
 
 COLERIDOE (S. T.) . 
 
 Collier (Hon. John) 
 Collins (J. Churton) 
 COLQUHOUN (F. S.) . 
 CoLVlN (SiJney) 
 Combe (G.) 
 Commons (J. R.) 
 CosiiREVE (Rev. J.) . 
 Conway (Hugh) 
 CooK (E. T.) . 
 Cooke (.\. H.) . 
 Cooke (C Kinloch) . 
 
 COOICE(J.P.) . 
 
 Ci">iEK (K. H.) 
 
 CoRBKTT(J.) . 4, 
 
 .(VV.H.) 
 
 PAGE 
 
 • 33 
 
 • »4 
 3 
 
 • 3S 
 4 
 
 • 9 
 JOi 33 
 
 5 
 4 
 
 K.) . 4S 
 .i6, aa, 24 
 
 • 34 
 
 • 7 
 
 . S 
 
 • 44 
 . . 38 
 
 aa 
 
 4.16 
 
 a 
 
 aa 
 . 16 
 4i 24 
 
 • 4i 9 
 
 • 33 
 
 • 39 
   19 
 
 a 
 . zB 
 . aS 
 
 8, 39 
 ig 
 
 2o. 45 
 13 
 
 19. 
 
 .) 
 
 ", »3i 
 
 COKFIELD 
 O'KNlsH (K.) 
 
 C.!<,..-.(H ) 
 Cossa(L.) 
 
 C0TKS(E.). 
 COTTERILL (I. H 
 
 Cotton (Bishop) 
 Cotton (C.) 
 Cotton (J. S.) . 
 COUES (E.) 
 
 colrthope (w. j.) 
 Cowei.l(G.) 
 
 COWIFR . 16 
 
 Cox (G. v.) 
 Craik (Mr».) 16, ao, ai, 44, 45 
 Craik (H.) 6, 9, 23, 34 
 Crank (I.ucv) . -45 
 Crane (Walter) . 45 
 Craven (Mr*. D.) . 9 
 Crawford (F. M.) . ao, as 
 
 CREKiHTON (Bishop M.) 5,17 
 CRICHTON-BROWNE(SirJ.) 9 
 
 Cros'.(J.A.) .35 
 
 CR'isskKV (R.) . 13 
 
 Crossi KV(K.) ... 3 
 Cnossi.kv (H.) . -43 
 
 Cumming(L.) . . . 31 
 
 CCNLIFFK (J. W.) . . a3 
 
 CUNNINr.MAM (C.) . . 34 
 
 r AM (Sir H.S.). »o 
 
 ( \M(Rev 
 
 C \M(k 
 
 ( 
 
 f 
 
 ( 1 . . 
 
 J.- H. R.) . 
 
 Dami.itkiim (K. v.). 
 
 Damn (F.) 
 
 nAKVNi(H.G.) 
 
 Daik (A W.W ) 
 
 OALTOK(Kev. J. N.) 
 
 K(SirA. T). 
 rv.G. H.) 3(5. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Daniell (Alfred). . . 31 
 Dante . .4, 15, 43 
 
 Davidson (Bishop) . . 40 
 Davies (Rev. J . LI. V 37, 40 
 Davies (W.^ . 6, 40 
 
 Dawkins(W. B.) . . I 
 Dawson (G.M.) . 10 
 
 Dawson (Sir J. \V.) . . 10 
 Dawson (W. J.) . .16 
 Dav (L. B.) . . . ao 
 Dav(R. E.) ... 31 
 Df.an (A.). ... to 
 Defoe (D.) . 4i »3i »4 
 
 DEc;hRDON(W. E.) . . 35 
 Dkighton (K.). 5, iS 
 
 Delamotte (P. H.). a 
 
 Deluos (L.) . -29 
 
 Dell(E.C.) ... 13 
 Db Morgan (M.) . 45 
 
 Deissen(P.) . . .30 
 
 Di; (^IfATKKI- Ai.Kn (.\.) . I 
 
 Db Vari(;nv(H.) 6 
 
 De Vere (.\.) . .16,17,33 
 DiCEv {A. V.) . 14, 34 
 
 Dickens (C.) . ao, 
 
 Dn-KENS (iM. A.) ao, 
 
 DiGGLE(Rev.J.\V.). 
 Dii.KE(Ashton W.) . 
 DiLKE (Sir Charles W.) a8, 
 Dillwvn (E. A.) 
 Dobbin (L.) 
 
 DOBSON (A.) 
 Donaldson (J.) 
 donisthori'e (w.) 
 Dowden (E.) 4 
 
 Doyle (Sir F.H.) . 
 
 D0VLE(JA.) . 
 
 Dra(;e(G.) 
 Drake (B.) 
 
 DRUMMOND(Prof. J.) 
 
 Dkvden 
 
 Du Cane(E. F.) 
 
 '•]■) ' 37 
 •Wh7,3B.3V 
 
 23 
 
 23 
 
 4> 
 aa 
 
 34 
 . 20 
 . S 
 4. M 
 
 • 38 
 
 • 34 
 16, 18, 34 
 
 • »7 
 
 13 
 
 • 35 
 42 
 
 40 
 
 23 
 34 
 DuFF(Sir M. E. G.) 6, 33, 34.44 
 
 DUNSMUIR (A.). . 20 
 
 DOntzkr (H.) ... ft 
 DuKAND (Sir M.) ao 
 
 DvER (L.). a, ^3 
 
 DVEK(H.). . V-, 
 
 Eadie(J.). . 4. 35. 37 
 
 Earl (.X.). .31 
 
 EASTLAKE(I^dy) . 33 
 
 Ebers(G.) . .30 
 
 Ecci.Ks (A. S.) . . 27 
 
 I Eih;kworth (Prof. F. Y.). 33 
 
 I I'.IM.KWOKTII (.\I.) SM 
 
 ! Edmunds (Dr. W.) . . a6 
 Ei)WARi)S-Moss(Sir J. E.) 35 
 Eimkr(G. H.T.) . 6 
 
 Eldkrton (W. a.) . 10 
 
 Eli.krton (Rev. J.) . . 40 
 Ei.i.iot (Hon. A.) . 34 
 
 Kiii».(T.). . .3 
 
 r N(R. W.) . 4.3, 
 
 ■.(O. F.) . . .-, 
 LIMA-. (A.) ... a 
 Evans (I-idy) . 3 
 
 Evans (S.) . .17 
 
 evkhktt (j. d.) . . 31 
 Fai C'NKR (Ijinoe) . 30 
 
 Farrar (Archdeacon) 6, 36, 40 
 Farrkm (SirT. H.) . 34 
 
 Fas'.aciit (G. E.) 33 
 
 Faulkner (F.). 7 
 
 Fawcktt (Prof. H.). 33,34 
 
 Fawcett (Mrs. H.) 
 Fay (Amy) 
 F.WKKK (Sir I.). 
 Fearnlev(W.) 
 Fearon (D. R.) 
 Ferkel(W.) . 
 Fessenden (C.) 
 Fieliik(.\. .M.). 
 FiNCK (H. T.) . 
 
 FiNl.AVSON (T. C.) 
 
 Fisher (Rev. O.) 
 Fiske(J.). 6, 7, 11, 
 FisoN(L.). 
 Fitch (J. G.) . 
 Fitz Gerald (Caroline) 
 Fitzgerald (Edward) 
 Fitzmaurice (Lord E.) 
 Flagg (A. T.) . 
 Fleischer (E.). 
 
 3o> 
 
 Fleming (G.) . 
 Flower (Sir W.H. 
 
 FlOckiger(F..A.) . 
 
 FoNn.\(A. J.) . 
 
 FORbES(A.) 
 
 Forbes (Prof. G.) . 
 Forbes (Kev. G. H.) 
 Forbes-Mitchell (W.) 
 Foster (Prof. M.) . 
 Fostkr-Melliar (.\.) 
 
 FOTHERGILL (Dr. J. M.) 
 
 Fowlk (Rev. T. W.). 
 FowLER (Rev. T.) . 
 Fowikr(W.W.) .3. 
 FcxCl". W.) 
 Fox (Dr. Wilson) 
 FoxwEi.L (Prof. H. S) 
 Kra.mji(D.) 
 Frankland (P. F.) . 
 Eraser (Bishop) 
 Fraskr-Tvtler (C. C.) 
 
 FRArKR(J.G.) . 
 
 Freeman (Prof. E. A.) 
 
 3, Si I'. "2, 
 
 French (G. R.) 
 Fbikdmann (P.) 
 
 Kp;i'|ssakt 
 Frost (A. B.) . 
 I Froudk (J. A.) . 
 
 i Ful.l.KRTON(W. M.) 
 
 I Furnivall (F.J.) . 
 I Fvffk(C. a.) . 
 t Fvkk(H. H.) . 
 I Gaikiinkk (I.) . 
 
 Gaiskori) (H.) . 
 
 Gait (J.). 
 
 Galton (F.) . 
 
 Gamgeb (.Vrthur) 
 
 Gaki>nkr (Percy) 
 
 Garnktt (R.) . 
 
 Garnktt(W.). 
 
 Gaskkli. (Mrs.) 
 
 Gaskoin (Mrs. H.) . 
 
 Gki.i.ks(W. D.) 
 
 Cm (H.) . 
 
 Gek(W.) 
 
 Gil (W. W H.) 
 
 Grikik (Sir A.). 4, 6, i 
 
 Gknnadius ( I.) 
 
 Gkni'n<. ( I. F.) 
 
 GiHniNK(n.de B.) 
 
 GiiiiioN (Charles) 
 
 GlIXHRlST (A.). 
 
 G I IKS (P.). 
 
 Gilman (N. P.) 
 
 PAGE 
 
 6, 33 
 . 38 
 
 . >3 
 
 • 3« 
 
 • 9 
 
 • 3» 
 
 • 3' 
 
 • 13 
 
 I 
 
 • 23 
 
 • 3» 
 34. 40 
 
 1 
 
 9 
 
   »7 
 
 17. »3 
 
 6 
 
 29 
 
 8 
 
 ao 
 
 46 
 37 
 
 33 
 4. 44 
 
 3 
 40 
 
 5 
 
 7. S2 
 10 
 
 9. »7 
 34, 40 
 
 4, 30 
 23, 88 
 
 35 
 27 
 33 
 II 
 
 I 
 40 
 •7 
 
 I 
 
 34,3s 
 16 
 
 4 
 »3 
 45 
 
 4 
 44 
 •7 
 
 13 
 II 
 
 5 
 
 9 
 
 30 
 
 I 
 
 3» 
 
   
 
 «7 
 
 .S 
 
 >4 
 
 3^' 
 
 5, 43 
 37 
 3« 
 3« 
 
 o, 32 
 
 «9 
 
 16 
 
 II 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 29 
 
 33i 35
 
 INDEX, 
 
 49 
 
 4. 
 
 5. 
 
 GiLMORE (Rev. J. 
 
 Gladstone (Dr. J. H.) 
 Gladstone (W. E.) . 
 Glaister (E.) . 
 
 GODFRAY (H.) . 
 
 Godk:in(G. S.). 
 Goethe . . 4, 5, 
 Goldsmith 4, 14, 17, 
 Conner (E. C. K.) . 
 Goodfellow (J.) 
 Gordon (General C. G.) 
 Gordon ^Lady DuflF) 
 Gordon (H.) . 
 GoseHEN (Rt. Hon. G. J 
 GossE (Edmund) 
 Gow(J.) . 
 Gow(\V.). 
 Gracian (Balthasar) 
 Graham (D.) . 
 Graham (J. W.) 
 Grand'homme (E.) . 
 Grake(\V. L.). 
 Grant(C.) 
 Gray (Prof. Andrew) 
 Gray (Asa) 
 Gray 
 
 Gray (J. L.) . 
 Gregory (R. A.) 
 Green (J. R.) 10, 11, 
 Green (Mrs. J. R.) . 
 Green (W.S.). 
 Greenhill (W. A.) . 
 Greenwood (F.) 
 Greenwood (J. E.) . 
 Grenfell (Mrs.) 
 Griffiths (W.H.) . 
 Grimm 
 
 Grove (Sir G.). 
 Guest (E.) 
 Guest (M.J.) . 
 Guillemin (A.) 
 Guizot(F. P. a.) . 
 Gunton (G.) . 
 Gwatkin (H. M.) . 
 Halle (E. von) 
 Hales (J. W.) . 
 Hallward (R. F.) . 
 Hamerton (P. G.) . 2, 
 Hamilton (Prof. D. J.) 
 Hamilton (J.). 
 Hanbury (D.) . 
 Hannay (David) 
 Hardwick (Archd C.) 
 Hardy (A. S.) . 
 Hardy (W. J.). 
 Hare (A. W.) . 
 Hare (J. C.) . 
 Harker(A.) . 
 Harper (Father Thos.) 
 HARRis(Rev. G. C.). 
 Harrisom (F.^. 5, 6, 12 
 Harrison (Miss J.) . 
 Harte (Bret) . 
 Hartig (Dr. R.) 
 Hartley (Prof. W. N.) 
 Hassall (A.) . 
 Hauser(K.) . 
 Hawkins (H. P.) . 
 Hayks (A.) 
 Headlam (A. C.) . 
 Headley (F. W.) . 
 Heavisidk (O.) 
 Helm(E.). 
 Helps (Sir A.) . 
 
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 • 15 
 
 S.9 
 
 ID 
 
 • 2, 9 
 
 3 
 
 . 6 
 
 I7> 23 
 
 23. 24 
 10 
 
 13 
 5 
 44 
 31 
 33 
 15 
 
 17. I 
 
 29 
 24 
 17 
 20 
 
 q 
 
 40 
 20 
 31 
 
 7, 2J 
 
 17. 24 
 • 24 
 
 3 
 14. 24 
 10, 12 
 
 44 
 24 
 24 
 45 
 9 
 27 
 
 4"' 
 28 
 12 
 12 
 
 31 
 6 
 
 33 
 37 
 33 
 23 
 14 
 24 
 27 
 
 40 
 
 27 
 
 4 
 
 37. 40 
 20 
 
 37 
 24 
 40 
 32 
 3^ 
 4^ 
 . 24 
 2 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 12 
 
 S 
 27 
 17 
 
 2 
 
 46 
 31 
 33 
 24 
 
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 . 8 
 
 . 21 
 
 • 42 
 
 • 24 
 . 10 
 
   9 
 
 • 31 
 . 36 
 
 5 
 
 • 30 
 
 • 34 
 !5 
 
 34, 
 
 28 
 
 24 
 10 
 
 5 
 30 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 45 
 34 
 44 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 HEMPEL(Dr. W.) 
 
 Herman (H.) . 
 
 Herodotus 
 
 Herrick . 
 
 Herrmann (G.) 
 
 Hertel (Dr.) . 
 
 Hertz (H.) . 
 
 Hickie (W. J.). 
 
 Higinbotham (C. J.) 
 
 Hill (D.J.) . 
 
 Hill (F. Davenport) 
 
 Hill(0.). 
 
 Hill(G. B.) . 
 
 Hi0RNs(A. H.) 
 
 HoBART (Lord) 
 
 Hobday (E.) . 
 
 Hodgson (Rev. J. T.) 
 
 HOFFDING (Prof. H.) 
 
 Hofmann (A. W.) 
 
 Hole (Rev. C.). 
 
 Holiday (Henry) 
 
 Holland (T. E.) . 14, 
 
 Hollway-Calthrop (H.) 
 
 Holm (A.). 
 
 Holmes (O. W., junr. 
 
 Homer 
 
 Hood(T.). 
 
 Hooker (Sir J. D.) 
 
 Hoole (C. H.) . 
 
 Hooper (G.) 
 
 Hooper (W. H.) 
 
 Hope (F.J.) . 
 
 Hopkins (E.) . 
 
 Hoppus(M. A. M.) 
 
 Horace . 
 
 Hort(F. J. A.). 
 
 Horton (Hon. S. D.) 
 
 Hosken (J- D.) 
 
 Hovenden (R. M.) 
 
 Howell (George) . 14, ^^ 
 
 Howes (G. B.) . . 32, 46 
 
 Howitt (A. W.) . . I 
 
 HowsoN (Very Rev. J. S.) 38 
 
 HoziER (Col. H. M.). . 28 
 
 HiJBNER (Baron) . . 44 
 
 Hughes (T.) 
 
 3. 4> 5i 17. 20, 24, 40, 44 
 Hull(E.). . . 2, 10 
 
 HULLAH (J.) . . 2, 23, 28 
 
 Hume (D.) ... 4 
 HuMPHRY(Prof.SirG.M.) 32,46 
 Hunt(W.) ... 12 
 Hunt(W.) ... 2 
 Hutchinson (G. W. C.) . 2 
 Hutton (R. H.) . 4, 24 
 Huxley(T)4,24, 30,31,32,35,^6 
 Hyde(W. deW.) . . 40 
 Illingworth (Rev. J. R.) 40 
 Ingram (T. D.) . . 12 
 
 Ireland (A.) . . .25 
 Irving (H ) . . .19 
 Irving (J.) . . . n 
 Irving (Washington) . 14 
 Jackson (D. C.) . . 31 
 Jackson (Helen) . . 20 
 Jacob (Rev. J. A.) . 40 
 
 Jacobs (J.) . .13,24,44 
 James (Henry). . 4, 21, 25 
 James (Rev. H.) . . 40 
 James (Prof. W.) . . 30 
 Jabdine (Rev. R.) . . 30 
 Jeans (Rev. G E.) . 40,43 
 Jebb (Prof. R.C.) 4,12,15,25 
 Jellett (Rev. J. H.) . 40 
 
 ) 
 
 15. 16, 43 
 
 • 14 
 7. 4< 
 
 • 36 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 10 
 
 • 17 
 
 20 
 
 16, 23, 43 
 36> 37. 40 
 
 33 
 17 
 43 
 
 33. 
 
 5. 15: 
 
 Jenks (Prof. Ed.) . 
 Jennings (A. C.) 
 Jersey (Countess of) 
 Jephson(H.) . 
 Jevons(W. S.)5 
 Jex-Blake (Sophia), 
 
 JOCELINE (E.) . 
 
 Johnson (Amy) 
 Johnson (Samuel) 
 Jolley (A. J.) . 
 Jones (Prof. D. E.) . 
 Jones (F.). 
 
 Jones (H. Arthur) . i- 
 JONES(H. S.) . 
 Julius (Dr. P.). 
 Kahlden (C.) . 
 Kalm (P.) 
 
 Kant . . . . 
 Kanthack (A. A.) . 
 Kari . . . . 
 
 KAVANAGH(Rt.Hn.A.M.) 
 Kay (R«v. W.) . 
 Kearv (Annie). 
 Keary (Eliza) . 
 Keats 
 Keble(J.). 
 Kellner (Dr. L.) 
 Kellogg (Rev. S 
 Keltie (J. S.) . 
 KtLViN (Lord) . 
 Kempe(A. B.) . 
 Kennedy (Prof. A 
 Kennedy (B. H.) 
 Kennedy (P.) . 
 Keynes (J. N.). 
 Kidd(B.) 
 Kiepert (H.) . 
 Kimber (D. G.) 
 Kingsley (Charles) 
 
 page 
 
 • 34 
 12, 36 
 
 • 45 
 
 34 
 35 
 
 9 
 25 
 32 
 23 
 36 
 32 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 27 
 44 
 30 
 27 
 
 45 
 
 5 
 
 • 37 
 
 '2, 21, 36, 45 
 
 • 45 
 4, 24. 25 
 
 24 
 29 
 
 40 
 
 35 
 
 H.^ 
 
 H 
 
 0. zrj, 
 
 W ') 
 
 30. 
 
 31 
 
 9 
 
 42 
 21 
 
 33 
 35 
 10 
 
 32 
 
 13.15,17.21,25,28,38,44,45 
 
 Kingsley (G.) 
 Kingsley (Henry) . 
 Kipling (J. L.). 
 Kipling (Rudyard) . 
 
 KiRKPATRICK (Prof.) 
 
 Klein (Dr. E.). . 7, 
 Klein (F.) 
 Knight (W.) . 
 Kuenen (Prof. A.) . 
 Kyn ASTON (Rev. H.) 
 Labberton (R. H.) . 
 Lafargue (P.). 
 Lamb. . . 4, 5, 
 Lanciani (Prof. R.). 
 Landauer (J.). 
 Landor . 
 Lane-Poole (S.) 
 Lanfrey(P.) . 
 Lang (Andrew) 14, 
 
 Lang (Prof. Arnold). 
 Langley (J. N.) 
 Langmaid (T.). 
 Lankester (Prof. Ray) 
 Laslktt (T.) . 
 Laughton (J. K.) . 
 Laurie (A. P.). 
 Lea (A. S.) 
 Leaf (W.) 
 Leahy (Sergeant) . 
 Lee(M.) . 
 Lee (S.) . 
 Lee-Warner (W.) . 
 Leeper (A.) 
 Legge (A. O.) . 
 
 23 
 
 35 
 44 
 • 44 
 21, 45 
 36, 40 
 27, 28 
 . 26 
 if, 38 
 . 36 
 43 
 3 
 21 
 
 25 
 
 2 
 
 40, 
 
 24 
 
 24, 
 
 24 
 24 
 
 5 
 43 
 46 
 
   3» 
 9 
 
 7> 25 
 7 
 
 • 4 
 
 • I, 3 
 
 • 32 
 16. 43 
 
 • 35 
 
 . 21 
 
 23i 43 
 
 12 
 
 • 43 
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 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Leibnitz . .   .) 
 
 Leslie (G. D.) .   25 
 
 Letiiabv(\V. R.) . 2, 35 
 LETHBKiixiB (Sir Roper) 5, 12 
 
 Lew (Amy) . .11 
 
 Lewis (Mrs. A. .S.) . . 36 
 
 Lkwis(R.) . . .15 
 
 Lewkhwitscii (J.) . . 35 
 
 LlGHTKOOTtBD.; 5.36 37,38,40 
 
 Ligmtwoou (J. M.) . . 14 
 LiNUbAV (Dr. I. A.) . . 27 
 
 LiTTl.KDAlJ-: (11.) . 16 
 
 LoCkVKK (J. N.) . 3,8,32 
 
 LoLKiE (Prof. O.J.) 3, as, 3' 
 LowensunLessinu (F.) 
 LoEW"v(B.) 
 
 LoPTIK(MrS. W.J.). 
 LoNliKEI.l.oW (H. W.) 
 
 aSi 
 
 4-^ 
 
 • as 
 
 . 28 
 
 12 
 
 "9. a3i 43 
 
 • "5 
 . 16 
 
 • 41 
 
 30, 
 
 LoNsnAI.E (J.) . 
 LowK (\V. M.) . 
 
 LOWELI (f. R.). 
 
 Louif(H.) 
 Li;jBCKK(Sir J.) 
 LtCAs(F.) 
 Lucas (Joseph) 
 LVNT (J ) . 
 LflTON (S.) 
 
 LVAl.1. (Sir Alfred) . 
 
 LVSAGHT (S. R.) 
 J-VTK(H.C. M.) 
 LVTTKI.TON (.v. T.) . 
 LvTT^LTO^• (1-.) 
 l,VTTf>N (K.-Jfl of) 
 
 Mac.\i.istkk (D.) 
 
 MACAKTHUh (M.) 
 
 Macaulav (G. C.) 
 Macaim.av (Lord) 
 Maccoi 1. (Norman) 
 .McCt Ki.v(J. K.) 
 MC.is.i (Dr. J.) 
 .Ma( r. .NALl> (G.) 
 Mackam. (J. W ) . 
 Maci.agan (Dr. T.). 
 Maci akkn (Rrv. .Mex.) 
 NtA< 1 AHKN (Archibald) 
 .M Atl.KAN (G. E.) 
 
 Maclean (W.C.) 
 Maci.eak (Rev. Dr.)35,37, 38 
 M'Lknnan (J. F.) . I 
 
 M'Lknnan (Malcolm) 
 
 MaCMII LAN (Rrv. H.) 
 
 Macmii.lan (M«( h.iel) 
 MAf v: LAN (M. K.) 
 
 Ma< loii, (K. S.) . 
 Mai-.^(F.) 
 Ma«,likk(J. F) 
 MAHArrvoW J. P.) 
 
 '• "u'5' '5. 30, 
 Maitlanij(F.W.) . 
 Mai.kt(I,.) 
 MAL<)iiv(Sir T.) 
 MAi.tms ( T. K.) 
 MANsriBLi>(C. B.) . 
 Mawkham (C. R.) . 
 Mam ( I K.) . 
 
 Mam«,,,tt(|. A.R.). 
 H '> •   I (( apt.) 
 Mak'.hai L (Pro(. A ) 
 Makmiali. (H. R.) . 
 Mahtkc (C) . 
 Ma«tin (Fr.tficcv) 
 Mamtin (l-rrdcrii k). 
 MAiniK(H.N.) 
 Mahtimeau (C. a ). 
 
 21 
 
 »5i4« 
 5, 18 
 
 21 
 
 2' 
 21 
 
 15 
 
 4', 44 
 '4. 14 
 
 ■J I 
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 \ 1 
 
 e 
 
 3' 
 
 .1 
 
 3J 
 
 30 
 
 >e 
 
 4S 
 
 10 
 31 
 
 2 
 
 24 
 
 43 
 
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 '4. '7, as 
 
 • 35 
 
 7i9.aSi46 
 
 17 
 
 44 
 
 8 
 
 . 8 
 
 4 
 ai 
 
 3» 
 
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 Maktineau (H.) . 6 
 
 .\1a>.i.s(0. T.). . . I 
 Masson(D.) 4, s, 19, 23. 30 
 .Ma.sson (G.) . 8, 23 
 
 Ma!,son(R. O.) . 19 
 
 .Mathew (K. J.) . . 34 
 .VIaturin (Rev. W.). . 41 
 Maudslev (Dr. H.) . . 31 
 Mal'kice(F.) 9,25,30,36-38,41 
 Maukice (Col.F.) 5,28,34 
 .Max Miller (F.) . . 30 
 .Mayek(A. M.). . 32 
 
 MAVokU.B.) ... 37 
 .Mayor (Prof. J. E. B.) . 3, 6 
 .Mazini (L.) . . -45 
 Meloola (Prof. R.). 8, 31, 42 
 Mendenhall (T. C.) . 31 
 Mevgkk(C.) . -33 
 
 .MERClEK(Dr. C.) . 27 
 
 .VlRK(;uR(Prof. J.) . . 28 
 Merki'Ith (G.). . 17 
 
 Meredith (L. A.) . 14 
 
 Mrver (E. von) 8 
 
 MlALL(L. C.) . . . 46 
 
 .MiciiKi.KT (M.) la 
 
 MiERs(H. A.) ... 13 
 .MiLL(H.R.) ... 10 
 .Mu.LER(R. K.). . 3 
 
 .MiLLiGAN (Rev. W.). 37,41 
 Milton . . 5, n, 17, 23 
 MiNTo(Prof. W.) .   
 MiTKoni)(A. H.) 
 .Mrri-MKi.(M. K.) . 
 .MiVART(St. George). 
 
 MlXTICR(\V.G.) 
 
 Mohammad 
 .MOLESWORTH (Mrs.) 
 .VloLLOV iG.) 
 MONAHAN (J. H.) 
 .MONTKLIUS (O.) 
 
 .Mooke(C. H.). 
 MooKiiousE (Bi.shop) 
 MoKisoN (I.e.) 
 MoRi.EV (Jobn). 4, 1 
 Morris (Mowbray) . 
 Morris (R.) 
 M(iRsiiKAi) (E. D. A.) 
 .MoUl.TON (L. C.) 
 .MuoiH (C. E.) . 
 MuiR(I.). 
 Muir(M, M.P.) 
 Mi'li.kr(H.) . 
 
 MUI.I INGKR (J. ».) . 
 
 Munk.>(J. E. C.) . 
 
 •9. 
 4 
 
 ail 
 
 MURl'HV ( I. J.). 
 
 Murray (D. Cbristie) 
 
 MVKRS(E.) 
 
 MvKRs(h. W. H.) . 5, 
 MviNi' (Bishop) 
 Nai.ai. (E. S.) . 
 Ni;i(NsT(Dr.) . 
 Ni- 1 ri.KsMiP (11.). . 
 Ni'wcAsTi.R (Duke ai 
 I».l(hr>>) 
 
 Nk W(.. iMIl (.S.) . 
 
 Nkwton (Sir C. T.). 
 Niciiol(J.) 
 Nitii..i.s(E. L.) 
 NicMoi.i.sm. A. A.) 
 Nihhkt(J.) 
 Nr.Ki. (I-»<ly A.) 
 
 NllKUKNSKIOI.il (A. E.) 
 NoRf.ATK (Kate) 
 
 NoRRls(W. E.) 
 
 21 
 21 
 14 
 3a 
 
 8 
 a4 
 45 
 3' 
 14 
 
 I 
 
 a 
 4» 
 
 4 
 
 as 
 a3 
 21. 
 
 43 
 >7 
 »7 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 12 
 
   4 
 
 41 
 
 21 
 
 '7. 43 
 
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 a< 
 
 8 
 
 '5 
 
 »4 
 
 7 
 
 4 
 
 31 
 
 I 
 
 7 
 21 
 
 44 
 
   2 
 21 
 
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 Norton (Charles Eliot) 4, 43 
 Norton (Hon. Mrs.) ij, ai 
 Oliphant (T. L. K.) as, ag 
 
 OLIPHANT(Mrs M.O.W.) 
 
 4, la, IS. 21, aa, 24, 45 
 Oliver (Prof. D.) . . 7 
 Oliver (Opt. S. P.). . 44 
 Oman (C. W.) ... 4 
 Orr (H. B.) . . .1 
 O.suoRN (H. F.) . 7 
 
 Ostwald (Prof.) 8 
 
 ()TTft(E. . . . la 
 Page(T. E.) ... 37 
 Palgravb (Sir F.) . . la 
 Palgrave(F.T.) 
 
 3. 17, 'Q, 23, 24, 39, 45 
 
 Palgrave (R. H. Inglis) 33 
 Palgrave (W. G.) 17, 34, 44 
 Palmer (Lady S.) 
 Parker (T. J.). 
 Pakki;u(\V. K.) 
 Parkkk (W. N.) 
 Parke-s (Sir H.) 
 Parkin (G. R. ) 
 Parkinson (S.) 
 Parkman (F.) . 
 Parry (G.) 
 Parsons (Alfred) 
 Pasteur (L.) . 
 Pater (W.) 
 
 7. 3a 
 
 Patek.son (J.) . 
 Patmore (Coventry) 
 Patteson (J.C.) 
 Pattison (.Slark) 
 Pailsen(F.) . 
 Payne (E.J.) . 
 
 PtABODY(C. H.) 
 
 Pearson (C. H.) 
 Peask (A. E.) . 
 Pkel(E.). 
 Peii.e(J.). . 
 Pei.lissirr (E.) 
 Pennell(J.) . 
 Pennington (R.) 
 Penrose (F. C.) 
 Percival(M. .M.) 
 Perkins (J H.) 
 Petti<;rkw (J. B.) 
 
 PlIILI IMOKE { I. G.) 
 
 Phillips (J. A.) 
 Phillips (W.C.) 
 PiCTON(J. A.) . 
 Pipkari)(H.G.) 
 PiKi:(I.. O.) . 
 Pike (W.). 
 Plato 
 Plumptre (Dean) 
 
 POLLARI>(A.W.) 
 
 PoLi.oCK(SirFk.,and Bart.) 
 Poi.i.ocK(Sir F.. Bt.) 1;, 25 
 Pollock (Ijidy) 
 Pollock (W. H.) . 
 Po<.lk(M. E.) . 
 Po<)lk(R. L.) . 
 
 PoPK . 
 
 Postk(E.) 
 Potter (I,.) 
 
 PoTTKR(R.) 
 
 Potts (\V.) 
 Preston (T.) . 
 Prkstwicii( J.). 
 Prick (E.C.) . 
 Prick (L. L. F. R.) 
 Prickaro (A. O.) 
 
 aa 
 
 7. 46 
 
 5 
 
 . 46 
 
 5 
 
 >2. 34 
 
   3a 
 «a, 13 
 
 aa 
 
 • «4 
 
 • 7 
 22, as 
 
 • 14 
 
 a3i 46 
 
   S 
 4.4> 
 
 • 9 
 I a, 34 
 
 9. 3» 
 
 • 3S 
 
 • »3 
 
 • 17 
 29 
 
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 3 
 
 10 
 2 
 17 
 '3 
 46 
 IS 
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 a7 
 13 
 44 
 43 
 4" 
 41 
 6 
 
 34 
 
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 . a6 
 
 • '3 
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 . a6 
 
 • 4> 
 
 . 26 
 
 10 
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 43 
 33 
 3 
 5 
 33 
 
 i 
 
 J 33 
 
 6 
 
 S 
 
 i6 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 17 
 
 3° 
 
 31 
 
 42 
 
 48 
 
 Prince Albert Victor 
 Prince George 
 Procter (F. ) . 
 Propert (J. L.) 
 Purcell(E. S.) 
 quesnay (f.) . 
 Kadcliffe (C. B.) . 
 Rae(J.) . . . 
 Ramsay (Sir A. C.) . 
 Ramsay (W.) . 
 Ransome(C.) . 
 Rathbone (W.) 
 Ravvlinson (W.G.)- 
 Rawnsley (H. D.) . 
 Ray (P. K.) . 
 Rayleigh (Lord) 
 Reichel (Bishop) . 
 Reid (J. S.) . 
 Remsen (I.) 
 Renan (E.) ... 6 
 Rendall (Rev. F.) . 37, 41 
 Rendu (M. leC.) . . 11 
 Reynolds (E. S.) . . 13 
 Reynolds (H. R.) . 41 
 
 Reynolds (Sir J. R.) . 27 
 Reynolds lO.) . .13 
 
 RhOADEs(J.) . . .22 
 
 Rhodes (J. F.). . . 13 
 Ricardo . . . .33 
 Richardson (B. W.) 13, 27 
 Richey(A. G.). . .15 
 Righton (E.) . . .16 
 Ritchie (."V.) ... 6 
 Robinson (Preb. H.G.) . 41 
 Robinson (J. L.) . . 29 
 Robinson (Matthew) . 6 
 Rochester (Bishop of) . 6 
 ROCKSTRO (W. S.) . .5 
 Rogers (J. E.T.) . 13,34 
 Romanes (G. J.) . . 7 
 RoscoE(Sir H.E.) 
 Roscoe(W. C.) . .17 
 RosEBERY (Earl of) . . 5 
 Rosenbusch (H.) . II 
 
 ROSEVEAR (E.) . . 9 
 
 Ross (P.) . . . .21 
 
 ROSSETTI (C. G.) . 18, 46 
 
 Routledge (J.) . . 34 
 
 RowE(F.J.) . . 18,19 
 RUCKER (Prof. A. W.) 
 
 RuMFORD (Count) . . 26 
 
 RUSHBROOKE (W. G.) . 36 
 
 Russell (Dean) . . 41 
 Russell (Sir Charles) . 34 
 Russell (W. Clark) . 4, 22 
 Russell (T.) . . .32 
 Ryland (F.) ... 15 
 RYLE(Prof. H.E.) . 36, 4 1 
 St. Johnston (A.) .22, 44, 46 
 Sadler (H.) ... 3 
 Saintsbury (G.) . 4, 15 
 Salmon (Rev. G.) . .41 
 Salt(H. S.) ... 26 
 Sandford (Bishop) . . 41 
 Sandford (M. E.) . . 6 
 Sandys (J. E.) . . . 44 
 Sayce(A. H.) . . .13 
 Scaife(W. B.). . . 26 
 Scartazzini (G. A.) . 15 
 
 SCHI lEMANN (Dr.) - ■> 
 
 Schorlemmer (C.) 
 Schreiber (T.). 
 Schuchhardt (C.) 
 Schultz (Dr. G.) 
 
 Scott (M.) 
 Scott (Sir W.). 
 Scratchley (Sir Peter) 
 Scudder (S. H.) 
 SEAT0N(Dr. E. C.) . 
 Seeley (Sir J. R.) . 
 Seiler (Dr. Carl) 
 SELBORNE(EarIoO 23, 
 
 Sellers (E. ) . 
 Service (J.) . 
 Sewell(E. M.) 
 Shadwell (C. L.) . 
 Shairp (J. C. ) . 
 Shakespeare . 16, 18, 
 Shann (G.) 
 Sharp (W.) 
 Shaw (Miss) 
 Shelley . 
 Shirley (W. N.) . 
 Shore (L. E.) . 
 Shorthouse (J. H.) 
 Shortland (Admiral) 
 Shuckburgh (E. S. ) 
 Shufeldt (R. W. ) . 
 SiBSON (Dr. F.) 
 Sidgwick (Prof. H.) 30, 
 SiME (J.) . 
 Simpson (Rev. W.) . 
 Skeat (W.W.) 
 Skrine (J. H.). 
 Slade (J. H.) . 
 Sleeman (L.) . 
 Sloman (Rev. A.) . 
 Smart (W. ) 
 Smalley {G. W.) 
 Smetham (J. and S.) 
 Smith (Adam) . . 3 
 Smith (Alexander) . 
 Smith (C. B.) . 
 Smith (Garnett) 
 Smith (Goldwin) 
 
 4, 6, 19. 26, 35, 
 Smith (H.) 
 Smith (J.) 
 Smith (Rev. T.) 
 Smith (W. G.) . 
 Sohm(R.). 
 
 Somerville (Prof. W.) 
 Southey . 
 Spender (J. K.) 
 Spenser . 
 Spottiswoode (W.). 
 St. Asaph (Bishop of) 
 Stanley (Dean) 
 Stanley (Hon. Maude) 
 Statham (R.) . 
 Stebbing (W.). 
 Steel (F. A.) . 
 Stephen (C. E.) 
 Stephen (H.) . 
 Stephen (Sir J. F.) 13, 
 Stephen (J. K.) 
 Stephen (L.) . 
 Stephens (J. B.) 
 Stevens (C. E.) 
 Stevenson (F. S.) . 
 Stevenson (J. J.) . 
 Stewart (A.) . 
 Stewart (Baltour) 31, 
 Stokes (Sir G. G.) . 
 Story (R. H.) . 
 Stone (W.H.). 
 Strachey (Sir E.) . 
 Strachey(J. St. L.) 
 
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 7 
 
 37 
 7 
 
 5, 24 
 27 
 
 8,23 
 
 32 
 38 
 41 
 35 
 35 
 4 
 22 
 
 9 
 i<; 
 26 
 15 
 
 s 
 
 18 
 15 
 
 6 
 2 
 
 46 
 2, 41 
 32 
 4 
 32 
 23 
 35 
 
 14 
 
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 Strachey (Gen. R.). . 10 
 
 STRANGFORD(VisCOUnteSS) 44 
 
 Strettell (A.) . .18 
 Stubbs (Dean) . . .41 
 Stubbs (Bishop) . . 37 
 Sutherland (A. ) . .10 
 SWAINSON (H.). . . 2 
 
 SwETE(Prof. H. B.). . 36 
 Swift (Dean) . . . 14 
 Symonds (J. A.) . 4 
 
 Symonds (Mrs. J. A.) 5 
 
 Symons (A.) . . .18 
 Tainsh(E.C.). . . 16 
 Tait (Archbishop) 4', 42 
 
 Tait(C. W. A.) . . 13 
 Tait (Prof. P. G.) 31, 32, 41 
 Tanner (H.) . . . i 
 Tarr (R. S.) . . .11 
 Tavernier (T. B.) . . 44 
 Taylor (E. R.). . . 3 
 Ta-Ylor (Franklin) . . 28 
 Taylor (Isaac). . . 2,-, 42 
 Taylor (Sedley) . 23, 32 
 Tegetmeier (W. B.) 9 
 
 Temple (Bishop) . . 42 
 Temple (Sir R.) . 4 
 
 Tennant (Dorothy). . 45 
 Tenniel (Sir John) . . 44 
 Tennyson (Lord) i6, 18, 24 
 Tennyson (Frederick) 
 Tennyson (Lord H.) 
 Theodoli (Marchesa) 
 Thompson (D 'A. \/.) 
 Thompson (E.). 
 Thompson (H. M.) . 
 Thompson (S. P.) 
 Thomson (A. W.) . 
 Thomson (Sir C. W.) 
 Thomson (Hugh) 
 Thoreau . 
 Thorne (Dr. Thome) 
 Thornton (J.). 
 Thornton (W. T.) 30, 
 Thorpe (T. E.). 
 Thring(E.) . 
 Thrupp(J. F.). 
 Thursfield (J. R.) . 
 Todhunter (I.) 
 
 T0RRENS(W.M.) 
 
 Tourg^nief (L S.) . 
 Tout(T.F.) . 
 Tozer(H.F.) . 
 Traill (H. D.). . 4 
 Trench (Capt. F.) . 
 Trench (Archbishop) 
 Trevelyan (Sir G. O.) 
 Trevor (G. H.) 
 Tribe (A.). 
 Tristram (W. O.) . 
 Trollope (A.) . 
 Truman (J.) . 
 Tucker (T. G.) 
 
 TUCKWELL (W.) 
 
 Tufts (J. H.) . 
 Tulloch (Principal). 
 Turner (C. Tennyson) 
 Turner (G.) . 
 Turner (H. H.) 
 Turner (J. M.W.) . 
 Turpin(G. S.). . . 8 
 Tylok(E. B.) ... I 
 Tvrwhttt (R. St. J.) 3, 19 
 Tyrrell (R.Y.) . . 26 
 
 13. 
 
 19 
 46 
 22 
 
 7 
 12 
 
 31 
 
 9 
 46 
 
 14 
 
 26 
 
 27 
 
 7 
 
 35. 43 
 .6,8 
 9, 26 
 
   36 
 
 • 5 
 
 . 6 
 
 5 
 22 
 
 5. 13 
 . 10 
 
 . 5> 34 
 
 • 35 
 
   42 
 
   13 
 
 • 19 
 . 8 
 
 • 14 
 
 • 5 
 
   19 
 
   42 
 
   13 
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 • 42 
 
 • 19 
 
 I 
 
 • 31 
 
 • 14 
 
 Vaughan (C. J.) 36, 37. 38, 42
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Valv.han (Rev. D. I. 
 VAi;GHAN(Rev. E.T 
 Vaccihan (Rev. R.) 
 Vblev (.M.) 
 Venn (Rev. J.). 
 VER.vos(Hon. W W 
 Vekkall(.'\. W.) 
 Verrall (Mrs.) 
 
 VlCKERMAN (C. ) 
 
 Victor (H) . 
 Vines (S. H.) . 
 Vioi.i.kt-Le-Ouc(E 
 Wain (Louis) . 
 Waldstein (C.) 
 Walker (Prof. F. .\ 
 Walker (Jas.) 
 Wai.kkh (I.oui&a) 
 Wallace (.\. R.) 
 Wall.\ce (Sir D. M 
 Wal»'Ole(S.) . 
 Walton (1.) . 
 Ward(.\ W.) . 
 WA.-JDtH. .M.) . 
 Ward(S.). 
 Ward(T. H.) . 
 Ward (Mrs T. H.) 
 Ward (W.) 
 Wake(W. K.). 
 Waters (C. .\.) 
 Wa rKwTON (Charles 
 WAys.N(E.) . 
 Wats .n(R. S.) 
 Watson (W.) . 
 WAV (.\. S.) . 
 WeBa(W. T.) . 
 Webster (Mrs. A.) 
 
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 )i4, 26,4a Weisbacii (J.) . . 10 
 
 ) . 43 Welbv-Gregory (Lady) . 38 
 
 . 43 Welldon (Rev.J.E.C.) 43 
 
 33 Wli.ST (M.) .33 
 
 30, 42 WESTCOTT(Bp.)35, 36,37, 38,42 
 
 ,) . 15 Westermarck (E.). 
 
 16, 43 Wetherell (J.) 
 
 2 Wheeler (J. T.) 
 
 • 35 Whewell 0^'.). 
 
 . 33 WhITCOMIi (I.. S.) . 
 
 7 White (A.) 
 
 E.). 10 White (dilbert) 
 
 . 45 ' White (Dr. W. Hale) 
 
 2 White (W.) 
 
 . 35 Whitney (W. D.) . 
 
 . 8 Whittier(J.G.) . 
 
 .i5 Whittlck (C. A.) . 
 
 7,28,34 WicKHAM (Rev. E. C.) 
 
 . 35 Wicksteed (P. H.) . 
 
 . 34 Wieuershkim (R.) . 
 
 . 14 WiKsKK (F. von) 
 
 4i 'Si 33 WiLBRAHAM (F. M.). 
 
 . 7 WlLKINS(Prof.A. S.) 2 
 
 . 19 Wilkinson (S.) 
 
 . 19 Wili.kv(A.) 
 
 22,46 Williams (C. M.) 
 
 6,26,37 Williams (C. T.) 
 
 . 3 Williams (G. H.) . 
 
 . 33 WlLLlA.MS(H.). 
 
 38,44 Williams (MoDir-Ku) 
 
 . 6 Williams (S.E.) 
 
 . 44 WiLLINK {.\.) . 
 
 19, 33 WlLLOl'GHllV (K. F.) 
 . 43 ! WlLLOUGHBV (F.) 
 
 18, 19 Wills (W.G.) . 
 
 19, 46 
 
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 27 
 
 
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 46 
 
 
 >9 
 
 Wilson (A. J.) . 
 Wilson (Sir C.) 
 Wilson (Sir D.) 
 Wilson (Dr. G.) 
 Wilson (.\rchdeacon) 
 Wilson (Mary). 
 
 WiNDELBAND (W.) . 
 
 WiNGATK (Major F. R.) . 
 
 WiNKWORTH (C.) 
 WiNKWORTH (S.) 
 
 Winter (W.) . 
 WoLSELEY (Gen. Viscount) 
 Wood (A. G.) . 
 Wood (C.J.) . 
 Wood (Rev. E.G.) . 13 
 Woods (Rev. F. H.). 
 Woods ; Miss M. A.). 15 
 Woodward (C. M .) . 
 woolner (t.) . 
 Wordsworth .5, 6, 16 
 WoRTHKV (Mrs.) 
 Wright (Rev. A.) 
 Wright (Miss G.) 
 WkightQ.) . 
 Wright (L.) . 
 Wkight(M. O.) 
 Wright(W.A.) 9,18, 23,34, 37 
 Wi'LKKR(Dr.) . . . 15 
 WuRTZ (Ad.) ... 8 
 Wvatt (SirM. D.) . . 3 
 Vi;o(J.) .... 3a 
 VoNGK(C.M.)6,7,9, 13, i3,3», 
 34, 36, 29, 3(>, 46 
 Young (E.W.) . . 10 
 Zirglkr (Dr. E. ' . . •& 
 
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