They told me at the next station you were here yesterday, but they did not know whether you were here now.
"Well, sir, I am shepherding some twenty miles away; and this afternoon, just as I had got back to my hut, in runs a black fellow.

It is a lonely spot, and I reached for my gun, thinking there was more of them, when he said: "'No shoot, me friend.

Me sarve Captain Whitney of de police.

You know him ?' "I said I had heard your name.
"'You know where he is ?' the black asked.
"I said I did not know for certain; but that when my mate went in for grub, two days before, he had heard say that you had been along there that morning.
"The black said: 'Good.

You run and find him.' "'Thank you,' says I.'What for ?' "'I find out about the bush rangers,' he said.