"Of course, the friends who came to our rescue cannot stay here; and there is no chance of my husband being moved, for a long time." "I am afraid not, indeed," Mr.Barker said.

"Most of them will leave this afternoon, in time to get back to their stations tonight.
"I have been speaking with Captain Whitney, and he says that he with his men will certainly stay here, for the present.

He sent off a messenger, last night, for six more of his men to join him here; for he still hopes to get news from his native boy, which may set him on the tracks of the bush rangers.

You need, however, be under no alarm; for I think there is no chance, whatever, of the bush rangers returning.
"By the way, Whitney would like to speak to you, after breakfast.
He wants you to give him as minute a description as you can of the fellows you saw.

We have already descriptions of four or five of them, given by men whom they have stuck up; but the band must have increased lately, and any particulars might be useful." Reuben came round in a quarter of an hour later.