He seemed quite incapable of grappling with the problem.
"Took my horse, did he?
Well, I'm blowed! By Cripes!" He had another good stare over the plain, and back at the party.
"My oath!" he added.
Then the natural stoicism of the bushman came to his aid, and he said, in a resigned tone, "Oh, well, anyways, I s'pose--s'pose he must have been in a hurry to go somewheres.

I s'pose he'll fetch him back some time or other." Gordon leant down from the box of the coach.
"You tell him," he said, "when he does fetch him back, that if I'd had a rifle, and had seen him sneaking off like that he'd have wanted an ambulance before he got much farther.

Tell him I'll find him if I have to hunt him to death.

Tell him that, will you ?" "All right, Mister!" said the drover, obligingly, "I'll tell him!" The horses plunged into their collars; off went the coach into long stretches of dusty road, with the fat red lady inside, and our two friends outside.

And in course of time they found themselves once more in Sydney, where they took the earliest opportunity to call on Pinnock, and hold a council of war against Peggy..