47/52 When you get through the Cypress, the plains are endless. Now do you know Tom Troubridge ?" "Slightly enough," said Alice, laughing. "You know he went to Sydney with us, and before he had been three days there he came to me full of this Darling Down country. And in the end he said: 'Sam, what money have you got ?' I said that my father had promised me seven thousand pounds for a certain purpose, and that I had come to town partly to look for an investment. |