She had been known to the banks at Nobble, also even at Sydney; and had been supposed at one time to have been worth twenty or thirty thousand pounds.

Then she had joined herself with Crinkett, and all their money had been supposed to vanish in the Polyeuka mine.

No doubt there had been enough in that to create animosity of the most bitter kind against Caldigate.

He in his search for gold had been uniformly successful,--was spoken of among the Nobble miners as the one man who in gold- digging had never had a reverse.

He had gone away just before the bad time came on Polyeuka; and then had succeeded, after he had gone, in extracting from these late unfortunate partners of his every farthing that he had left them! There was ample cause for animosity.
Allan, the minister, who certainly had been at Ahalala, was as certainly dead.