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"What? But he'll be coming back there?"

"He'd better! said Wally. "He's got my ear. And I tell you this, he'll blank well get no blank ride buck to Sydnaye in it, so you can blank well send for him." "What! Conte, please! I'm entitled to receive at least. modicum ut cordiality. I've no means of knowing the cause of your attitude, which. 1'may tell you. is in direkt contrast to the universal' spirit of hospitality and consideration which prevails. Hallo! Hallot Oh. infamous!" Gus dashed off to find Brahat,

Harry About Stratton.) It sounds serious to me. Heaven knows who's got hold of the irres- ponsible idiot - bushrangers I

hould imagine."

"Oh, he'll come back all right." Gussy told the hotel clerk to let Jackson Ridge know he was on his way otherwise * tỏ hold his tongue. Then, having obtained details of the route, he devoured" a hasty meal and sailed forth full of wrath and indigestion. That the captaincy of so gallant and conscientious a nian should ever have been subjected to adverse criticism in the press was posi tively insufferable.

He was too conscientious, really: he drove too fast, If only he'd been a trifle slower he "would have met Sylvie driving Dandy back to his headquarters for dinner.

Three-and-a-half hours in the shack provided Dandy with amply. sufficient inaction and temperame. At half-past-three he sallied, forth into the wildness to discover some sort of friendship in need. And as he jumped down the bank into the roadway he heard the familiar din

of the tourer and rising above it. # seraphis feminine. "Cooer." For the next hour

Dundy forgot his anxiety to see Mr. Wally Gunn again und even disregarded the claims of thirst. He dallied on the cast-iron cushions of the tourer and em- braced his Sylvie 'neath the shade of the gun

Presently she delighted a house- hold of friends on the main road. to Sydney by bringing Dandy Stratton in for some well-earned refreshment. She restored Dandy to the car and resumed the run to Sydney exactly, five minutes after Gussy had gone hurtling past the house in the opposite direction.

"You can't go back to-night, you know," said Dandy, when at length they reached the hotel.

"To-night?" replied Sylvie. "Not me. I've friends where I can put up. I shan't go back at all till after you're out.. Other- wise 1 shouldn't see any more of

"Oh, won't you? Anyhow, that's a bet-you don't go home till after I'm out?"

"Ablutely. And not quickly then."

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By Ben Travers

Harry Braham, slightly agitat- ed for once, came bustling up."

"Has Gus come back with you?** "Gus? No! Why 7" "Hell He dashed off in a car to find you."

"What! But it means a two- hundred-mile run. Silly little fusspot; he might have known: I'd be back in good time.".

"He, won't be," reflected the manager.

They telephoned Jackson Ridge, but Mr. Pogson had not yet ap peared. Dandy, however, had the satisfaction of thanking Mr. Gunn for the loan of his car. which Miss Hale would return to him in due course... Mr. Gunn's reply was wasted on the void.. But he was rude to Dad, who bunged him out of the house and refused to lend him a horse. So he left Jackson Ridge on a trek. of twenty miles back to his own. station. His manner of progress was not unlike that of a very slow-motion comet..

Thus, when Cussy made his. arbitrary deacent on the station, it was left to Dad to give a puzzl- ed and involved account of the day's proceedings, and to rack Gussy's already impaired diges- tion with a well-meant peace offering of home-made wine. The actual hour of his arrival back in Sydney was never revealed; but his disposition, as he padded him- self for action on Monday, was one of silent but seething, dis- dain for his fellow batsman.

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"I'm feeling fine," sald Dandy. as they walked together to the 'wicket. "Are you feeling fine. Gus?"

"No, most certainly I am feel- ing nothing of the sort. 'All ..your fault. I shall make nought, and you'll have it on your con- science. It's up to you now, so be careful. Avoid making that hook shot off your head at short- pitched deliveries."

"Oh, rats!"

"Rats, indeed! Now, once and for all, will you cease staring at that women's enclosure? Even now, on your way to bat, you 'keep- looking back over your shoulder.""

"O.K., Gus. She's there. "And she's sworn to stay till after I'm out.

you.

There's an inspiration for Why, you'll probably make hundred yourself, owing to the fact that you've been distantly associated with the sweet thing.""

Distantly is right," said Gussy peevishly.

The account of the day's play. as cabled to England, began as follows:

"England enjoyed a triumph at Sydney, getting to within 40 of Australia's total for the loss of four wickets." Pogson, after be- ing missed twice before scoring. contributed a valiant 70. The feature of the day's play was a magnificent innings by Stratton, who scored 231, and remained un- defeated at the close..."

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