I must give Tom time to get a house up before I go and join him.

What a convenient thing a partner like that is, eh ?" "Oh, by-the-bye, Mrs.Buckley," said Captain Brentwood, "what do you make of this letter ?" He produced a broad thick letter, directed in a bold running hand, "Major Buckley, "Baroonah, Combermere County, "Gipps-land.
"If absent, to be left with the nearest magistrate, and a receipt taken for it." "How very strange," said Mrs.Buckley, turning it over.

"Where did you get it ?" "Sergeant Jackson asked me, as nearest magistrate, to take charge of it; and so I did.

It has been forwarded by orderly from Sydney." "And the Governor's private seal, too," said Mrs.Buckley.

"I don't know when my curiosity has been so painfully excited.