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The black boys went in with them to Pike's store to take back

supplies on the pack-horse They travelled over the sa up; the reeted the was said about Considine's good

fortune It was thought wise to be silent, as he didn't kno

soon his wife ins at the blacks' camp, which they chanced on by

a riverside The camp was a pri ba them with strips

of paper bark Here the sable wariors sat and s their only civilised possession Careas very

anxious to look at them, a development of curiosity that Considine

could not understand

"Most uninteresting devils, I call 'e What is there to look at?"

Having parted with Maggie and Lucy, they pushed onwards, the old

capabilities of his gins, whoot near Pike's, he became more restless than ever

"See here, Mister," he said at last, "ets wind of this, I'll never get rid of her The only

thing to do is to slip aithout her knowing, and she o into the place at all I'll go on and caet the coach there after it leaves the town,

and she'll never know"

The town of "Pike's" consisted of a hotel, a store, a post-office,

a private residence, and coach-stables; these were all combined in

one establishment, so the town couldn't be said to be scattered