If it should come up, don't set yourself against it." "Kate, of course, will please herself," said Mrs.Heathcote.

"Now do lie down and rest yourself." His rest, however, was not of long duration.

As he had himself suggested, two policemen reached Gangoil at about three in the afternoon, on their way from Maryborough to Boolabong, in order that they might take Mr.Medlicot's deposition.

After Heathcote's departure it had occurred to Sergeant Forrest of the police--and the suggestion, having been transferred from the sergeant to the stipendiary magistrate, was now produced with magisterial sanction--that, after all, there was no evidence against the Brownbies.

They had simply interfered to prevent the burning of the grass on their own run, and who could say that they had committed any crime by doing so?
If Medlicot had seen Nokes with a lighted branch in his hand, the matter might be different with him; and therefore Medlicot's deposition was taken.