"Anyhow I've asked this new chum to dinner to-night, and Charlie Gordon's coming too.

He was in my office to-day, but hadn't heard of the new chum.

Gordon's a member now." "What's he like ?" said Gillespie.

"Anything like the gentleman that wanted the shearers killed ?" "Oh, no; a good fellow," said the Bo'sun, taking a sip of sherry.

"He manages stations for Grant, and the old man has kept him out on the back-stations nearly all his life.