Now the thing is, does any one know that you boys was in the fakement ?' 'Nobody's likely to know but him and Warrigal.

The knockabouts and those other three chaps won't come it on us for their own sakes.

We may as well stop here till Christmas is over and then make down to the Barwon, or somewhere thereabouts.

We could take a long job at droving till the derry's off a bit.' 'If you'll be said by me,' the old man growls out, 'you'll make tracks for the Hollow afore daylight and keep dark till we hear how the play goes.

I know Starlight's as close as a spring-lock; but that chap Warrigal don't cotton to either of you, and he's likely to give you away if he's pinched himself--that's my notion of him.' 'Starlight 'll keep him from doing that,' Jim says; 'the boy 'll do nothing his master don't agree to, and he'd break his neck if he found him out in any dog's trick like that.' 'Starlight and he ain't in the same cell, you take your oath.