Part 54 (2/2)

There you are!” And Cleopatra stood still; slightly panting, it is true, but with lauilelessness in his madonna face

Then, as the toilers of the station slowly dispersed to see about getting up an appetite for supper, Moriarty advanced, and laid both hands on Cleopatra's mane

”Collins!” he exclaimed; ”I'm better pleased than if I had won ten bob

What do you think?--that verse you quoted froht the question to un; the very question I wanted to ask you a couple of hours ago I know it's been asked before; in fact, I azine, where the writer uses the very words you quoted just now I thought perhaps you had never ht interest you--Was Hamlet mad?”

Of some few amiable qualities hich it has pleased heaven to endow h-temper is by no enuous face of the searcher after wisdo, like Malvolio, ard of control

”Se that the question has been asked before It has been asked But daylight in the ht time to enter on that inquiry For the present, we must leave the world-wearied prince to rest in his ancestral vault, where he was laid by the pious hands of Horatio and Fortinbras--where, each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of The Haested Moriarty critically

”No” I sighed

”Well then, I' in that sort of an answer,”

re fellow resentfully

”Dear boy,” I replied; ”I never iined that you could I would you had but the wit; 'twere better than your dukedom By-the-hat is Jack's other na Jack, or Jack the Shellback, or Fog-a-bolla Jack?”

”Young Jack; the chap that offered to ride Cleopatra”

”Jack Frost”

”Right Good-bye And reehtness”

Then I whistled to Pup, noticed that Bunyip had n't got on the wrong side of the fence, and turned Cleopatra's head toward the Bogan

G P R Jaht than the walking pace of a horse Weon earth can soothe and purify like the canter; nothing strengthen and exhilarate like the gallop

The trot is passed over with such contempt as it deserves So, for the first mile I was soothed and purified; for the next half-mile I busied myself on a metaphysical problem; and so on for about five miles

The ) arose in connection with the singular issue of that preposterous wager Whence came such an elaborate dispensation? If from above, it was plainly addressed to Moriarty, as a salutary check on his growing propensity; if from beneath, it must have been a last desperate attempt to decoy into evil ways one as, perhaps, better worth enlisting than the average fat-head To which of these sources would you trace the randfathers--to come no closer--would have piously taken the event on its face value of 50, as a blessing to the Prodistan, and a chastisement to the Papish But we move

And, by my faith, we have need

Presently I entered on the narrow pine-ridge; and now, carrying a line of fence onthrough pine, wilga, needle-bush, quondong, and so forth Two ate, through which ran the Nalrooka track

Up to this tie of the country had interdicted to Priestley

Montgo froy, turned toward hooate

The stationon the foot-board

I had just done explaining where I was bound for, and on what business, and where I intended staying that night, when I nearly tumbled off ht behind the buggy, and less than eighty yards away, Priestley's fourteen-bullock tea the fence, with the evident purpose of catching the Nalrooka track at the gate Priestley had chanced it

Knowing every gate on the run, he had one round the ration-paddock, and had already --that is, losing three ate, the track would be lovely, the wagon would chase the bullocks; evening would soon be on; he would fetch feed and water at the Faugh-a-ballagh Tank, in the quiet ht; moreover, if he met a boundary man, he could easily say he had permission from the boss; in any case, it would soon be not worth while to order him back; and he would be off the run some time to-morrow forenoon