, 1886-06-30

ease, making nearly a straight lire for the
other bank, distant perhaps a couple Of
hundred yards.
The troopers drawing their revolvers,
~dismounted, and, running forward. were
about to follow the example set by their
superior, who was taking steady ain at
the swimmer, perfectly discernable in the
clear moonlight, when suddenly half a
dozen pairs of soft but muscular arms en-
circled the three representatives of law
and order, as the women, screaming like "A
lot of curlews after a thunderstorm,
clasped them in a tight embrace.
Young Mrs. Dwyer herself tackled the
sergeant, crying; WHAT would you shoot
a man Just for n bit of horse-sweatingg
Leave him go, cant your He's over the
border now in New South Wales, mare
and all; and you cam touch him, even If
you was there"
Just then a yell Of triumph from the
scrub on the other shore seemed to vouch
for the fact, and was answered by a dozen
sympathetic whoops and shouts from the
aforementioned "Cornstalksv and "Ba-
mana men, who crowded along our side
of the river.
The sergeant struggled to free himself,
and his fair antagonist unwound her
arms, saying: "Come. now, sargent, sit
down peaceably and eat your supper,
can't you' What's the use Of making
such a bother over an old scrubber of "A
maresr
AN old crubber of a mare," repeated
the sergeant, aghast. "D'ye think we'd
ride this far over a scrubber OF "A marey
Why, it's the Lady Godiva he took; old
Stanford's race mare, worth 500 guineas.
If she's worth a penny. Bother me, if he
didn't take her clean out of the stable in
Tambo, settling night. after She won the
big money! But there, you all know as
much about 1t rs | can tell you. that's
plain to be seen, for ! never mentioned a
mare; II was your own self, l do believe,
and I'll nave him, if | have to follow him
to Melbourne. Just got married, has he,
Well, | can't help that; he shouldn't go
stealing race mares. Well, perhaps you
didn't know all about it," went on the
sergeant, in reply to the asseveration of
the Dwyer family as regarded their
knowledge OF how the young man had
become possessed of the mare. "But,"
shaking his head sententiously, "Im much
mistaken If most of this crowd hadn't a
pretty good idea that there was some
thing ciuss about her. However" he con-
cluded p~hilosophically, "it's no use crying
over split milk. I'll nav to ride over to
Cat daylight-that's another 40 miles
and get an extradition warrant out for
him. He might just as well have come
quietly at first, for we're bound to have
the two of them some time or other"
1t was now nearly daylight and our party
set out on their return home, leaving the
troopers comfortably seated at the supper,
or rather by this time, breakfast table;
while just below the house, in a bend of
tho rtsa~ ,"a nA,,11 - M xxrA tnuQaI
along, a group of men .busiIy engaged in
swimming a mob Of horses-among which
was doubtless the Lady Godiva herself
over to the New South Wales shore,
where, on the bank, plainly to be dis
cerned in the early dawn, stood the tall
form of her lawless owner.
"How do you think it will endfn | asked
Bray.
"Ohlp was the reply, they'll square it,
most likely. know something Of that
Stanford; he's a bookmaker, and II he gets
back the mare and n check for ESQ or el00
to cover expenses, he'll not trouble much
after jim"
ayes. But the police?" / asked.
Easier squared than Stanford an
swered Bray. dogmatically.
That this 'squaring' process was success
fully put In force seemed %tolerably GER
Aillt u Ntll ciibAtl1 Z L itd1
that at the autumn meeting of the N. @.
j. C. that Lady Godiva had carried off
the lions share of the money, and
| also had the pleasure Of meet
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Dwyer in one
of Cobb & Co.'s coaches, bound for
the nearest railway terminus, about 300
miles distant, thence to spend a month or
so in Sydney; Jim, as his wife informed
me, having lone uncommonly well out of
beentraveling for sale through the colonies
80 had determined to treat himself and the
"missis." for the first time in their lives,
to a look at the "big smoke"
THAT was a great shine at our wedding,
wasn't iti" she asked as the coachman
gathered up the reins preparatory to n
fresh start. "Butn-and here she tapped
her husband on the head with her parasol
IL look out now that he dom go sticking
up togany more Lady Godivas."
"phat's so" laughed Jim II find that ]
have my hands pretty full with the one
collared the night you were there. | doubt
sometimes I'd lone better to have stuck
to the other one; and as for temp" Here
Jim's head disappeared suddenly into the
interior of the coach; crack went the long
whip; the horses plunged, reared and
went through the usual performance OF
attempting to tie themselves into over
hand knots, then darted Off at top speed
on their sixteen mile stage, soon disap-
pearing in n loud of dust along the
cleared line. "-Chamber's Journal.