CHAPTER X.A LAWYER IN THE BUSH.
Gavan Blake, attorney and solicitor, sat in his office at Tarrong, opening his morning's letters.

The office was in a small weatherboard cottage in the "main street" of Tarrong (at any rate it might fairly claim to be the main street, as it was the only street that had any houses in it).

The front room, where he sat, was fitted up with a table and a set of pigeon-holes full of dusty papers, a leather couch, a small fire-proof safe, and a book-case containing about equal proportions of law-books and novels.

A few maps of Tarrong township and neighbouring stations hung on the walls.

The wooden partition of the house only ran up to the rafters, and over it could plainly be heard his housekeeper scrubbing his bedroom.