Sam won the race, and has got the prize.

Now, let us look forward, and not backward." They communicated to Desborough all particulars, and told him of the way they had seen the bushrangers go.

Every one was struck with the change in him.

No merry stories now.

The laughing Irishman was gone, and a stern gloomy man, more like an Englishman, stood in his place.