Mrs.Hardy had a letter, 'n Harry's coming down with cattle.' 'Gosh! he'll make it hot for Tinribs, I bet.' Waddy had been waiting for Harry Hardy to come home, confident that he would do something of an exciting character to the disadvantage of those persons who had been instrumental in sending his brother Frank to gaol.
Harry was much the younger of the two brothers; for some years he had been away droving, and the news of his brother's misfortune was bringing him home from a Queensland station.

The township thought, too, there would be a score to wipe out on his mother's account, and the return was looked for as an important public event.
Dick pondered over the situation for a moment.

It would never do to miss any entertainment that might result from Harry's return, and yet there was Joel Ham still to be reckoned with.
'I think we'd better wait,' he said.

'You fellows can let on as soon's he arrives.' Ted's face fell again, and Jacker moved uneasily.

He was anxious to be out of the mine and away from the uncanny possibilities of that dark chasm, and yet it was absolutely necessary that he should show no sign of funk, leave no opening for the tongue of derision.