"Do you stay here, Mr.
Medlicot, with the men, and I'll go on beyond where you began.

If I find the fire growing down, I'll shout, and they can come to me." So saying, he rushed on with a lighted bush torch in his band.
Suddenly he found himself confronted in the bush by a man on horseback, whom he at once recognized as Georgie Brownbie.

He forgot for a moment where he was and began to question the reprobate as to his presence at that spot.
"That's like your impudence," said Georgie.

"You're not only trespassing, but you're destroying our property willfully, and you ask me what business I have here.

You're a nice sort of young man." Harry, checked for a moment by the remembrance that he was in truth upon Boolabong run, did not at once answer.
"Put that bush down, and don't burn our grass," continued Georgie, "or you shall have to answer for it.