When you answered, I thought it was your voice, though it seemed impossible; but I could not be sure, because I could not hear plainly through the shawl.

Then the pistols were fired, and I suddenly felt myself falling; and I did not know anything more, till I saw you leaning over me.
"But where are all the others, and how is it you are here alone?
Of course, you must have turned back before you got to where the bush rangers were." "No, I am glad to say we succeeded with that part of the work, Miss Ellison, and have wiped out the bush rangers altogether.

We have got one of them a prisoner, but all the rest of the gang are killed.
"The distance is not quite so far as we thought it was.

It was a thirty miles' march, and two sixties.

We attacked them at daybreak, on the third day after leaving." "But it is only the fourth day today, is it not?
At least, it seems so to me." "It is the fourth day, Miss Ellison.