When they rode past Alice and myself yesterday morning, one was beside him so wonderfully like him, that even at that time I set them down for father and son." "If Hamlyn's strange tale be true, it is so," said the Doctor.

"Is the young man you speak of among the prisoners, do you know ?" "Yes; I helped to capture him myself," said Sam.

"What do you mean by Hamlyn's story ?" "Oh, a long one.

He met him in a hut the night after we picnic'd at Mirngish, and found out who he was.

The secret not being ours, your father and I never told any of you young people of the fact of this bushranger being poor Mrs.Hawker's husband.