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Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

CHAPTER 16
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'Then we're both under ban of the Law.

I DETEST Harris....

Good-night.' And she flitted through the French window without giving him her hand.
The station seemed in a state of unquietude till late into the night.
The lowing of the tailing-mob in the yard was more prolonged than usual.

And the horses were whinnying and answering each other down by the lagoon as though there were strangers about.

Lady Bridget, lying awake and watching through her uncurtained windows the descent of the Southern Cross towards the horizon, and the westward travelling of a moon just out of its first quarter, could hear the men's voices on the veranda of the Old Humpey--that of Ninnis and the Police Inspector; Maule seemed to have retired to his own room.
McKeith was evidently busy upon preparations for his absence from the station.


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