He was out in the Gulf-country in the early days--got starved out in droughts, swept away in floods, lost in the bush, speared by blacks, and all that sort of thing, in the days when men camped under bushes and didn't wear shirts.

Gone a bit queer in the head, I think, but a good chap for all that." "How did this Grant make all his money" asked Gillespie.

"He's awfully well off, isn't he?
Stations everywhere?
Is he any relation to Gordon ?" "No; old Gordon--Charlie's father--used to have the money.

He had a lot of stations in the old days, and employed Grant as a manager.

Grant was a new chum Scotchman with no money, but a demon for hard work, and the most headstrong, bad-tempered man that ever lived--hard to hold at any time.