NEXT morning all Waddy knew of the arrest, and it was felt that the game was nearly played out.

Dick's confession was published in the same issue of the Yarraman Mercury and public opinion in the township had decided against the searcher in spite of his long and faithful service as teacher and superintendent.

The murder theory was reluctantly abandoned.
Harry Hardy called at the homestead to inquire after Chris before going to work, and was told that she was much rested but not yet up.

At dinner-time he heard that she had been driven into Yarraman by Jock Summers to be near her father; the fact that she had left him without a word or a line seemed to confirm his worst suspicion, and again her words, 'I deceived them all.

I lied to everybody,' returned to mock him.
Harry had no quality of patience: he was impetuous, a fighter, not a waiter on fortune; but here was nothing to fight, and in his desperation he did battle on the hard ground.
They had cut the dyke in the new shaft at a shallower depth than Dick's Mount of Gold drive, and here Harry expended those turbulent emotions that welled within him, working furiously.