Now Maryborough was thirty miles distant.

Some one must be dispatched at once.

Jacko volunteered, but in such a service Jacko was hardly to be trusted.

He might fall asleep on his horse, and continue his slumbers on the ground.

Mickey and the German both offered; but the men were so beaten by their work that Heathcote did not dare to take their offer.
"I'll tell you what it is, Mary," he said to his wife, "there is nothing for it but for me to go for Jackson." Jackson was the doctor.
"And I can see the police at the same time." "You sha'n't go, Harry.