He was not either fish or fowl.

The squatters regarded him as an interloper, and as a man holding opinions directly averse to their own interests--in which they were right.

And the small free-selectors, who lived on the labor of their own hands--or, as was said of many of them, by stealing sheep and cattle--knew well that he was not of their class.

But Medlicot had gone his way steadfastly, if not happily, and complained aloud to no one in the midst of his difficulties.

He had not, perhaps, found the Paradise which he had expected in Queensland, but he had found that he could grow sugar; and having begun the work, he was determined to go on with it.
Heathcote was his nearest neighbor, and the only man in his own rank of life who lived within twenty miles of him.