The letter was delayed." Mary Grant laughed as she looked down at Mrs.Donohoe's clothes.

"What a sight I am!" she said.
"But, after all, it's Australia, isn't it?
And I have had such adventures already! You know you will have to show me all about the station and the sheep and cattle.

Will you do that ?" Hugh thought there was nothing in the world he would like better, but contented himself with a formal offer to teach her the noble art of squatting.
"You must begin at once and tell me things.

What estate are we on now ?" she asked.
"This is your father's station.

All you can see around belongs to him; but after the next gate we come on some land held by selectors." "Who are they ?" "Well," said Hugh, a little awkwardly, "they are relations of Mr.
Blake's.