"I said, of course, that I didn't want to influence him." Alice broke into a laugh.
"You little goose, as if what you say doesn't influence him." Three weeks later, Reuben received a letter from Mr.Hudson.
"My dear Whitney, I am glad to hear, from you, that you are engaged to be married; and the circumstances which you tell me of make it a most interesting affair.

If I were you, I should cut the constabulary.

I enclose a paper from Wilson, giving you three weeks' leave.

Come down to Sydney at once, and talk it over with me.

You know I regard you as my son, and I am going to have a voice in the matter." Reuben went down to Sydney and, after ascertaining his views, Mr.
Hudson went into town and forthwith arranged for the purchase, for him, of a partnership in the chief engineering firm in the town.
When he told Captain Wilson what he had done, the latter declared that he had robbed the colony of its best police officer.