Often we had talked about it since; wondered about the man who had lived in it, and what his life had been.
This time we'd had all the horses in and were doing a bit of colt-breaking.

Warrigal and Jim were both on young horses that had only been ridden once before, and we had come out to give them a hand.
'Do you know anything about that hut in the gully ?' I asked Starlight.
'Oh yes, all there is to know about it; and that's not much.

Warrigal told me that, while the first gang that discovered this desirable country residence were in possession, a stranger accidentally found out the way in.

At first they were for putting him to death, but on his explaining that he only wanted a solitary home, and should neither trouble nor betray them, they agreed to let him stay.

He was "a big one gentleman", Warrigal said; but he built the hut himself, with occasional help from the men.