The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21
CHAPTER VI.

long years.
CHAPTER VI.
The manager of the Sydney ''Tatter-
! sails" in Castlereagh street, was we'll
| known to Tom, who on the following
day called at his establishment, eager
to fulfill his aunt's commission, and
was told, much to his disappointment,
/ that there was not then a suitable pony
| in the stables for sale.
But" said Mr.. COsgrove, II expect
a draft of saddle horses for my next
Saturdays auction from DR.. Jenkins of
Nepean Towers, and I'll write and ask
| him to send down couple of we'll
bTOken-n ponies on approval"
'Unbroken will do as well. Mr.. Cos
grove. In fact L should like to break
in the pony for my sister. I have four
weeks holidey TO run, and will be glad
of having something 10 do with horses
again"
Leaving TattersaTs Tom stroled
about the streets for an hour or two,
/ putting in the time till it was time for
/ lunch. He had left home early in the
morning, and did not intend to return
= till late in the afternoon, as he wished
/ to see the Volunteer Artillery practice
/ from the forts, which was to begin at
8 O'Clock; after lunch he meant to call
/ on his friend, Captain Herrera, who
/ lived at Dawes Point, and who was
/ always at home in the afternoon.
/ Entering COmpagnOni's restaurant in
! Pitt street. he took a seat and was
/ scanning the menu card when he heard
/ his name called from the other end OF
/ the room.
Halo, Denny! Come over here and
/ feed with u.s." cried a tall, stout lad of
/ about II, who with three other youths
/ had just come in; there's plenty Of
| room at this table"
! The speaker was Toms old antago-
mist, Sam Buttle. He seemed in high
/ good humor. and made room for Tom
/ next to his own seat. He was really
/ despite his bullying manner and in
! ordinate cOnceit of himself, not a bad
natured youth, and although Tom and
he had fought so often, there was not
the slightest ill-wiIl between them.
! Denny" he said to Tom, I'VE are off
/ for weeks camp out at Narabeen La
! COON. Will you come with US? We
/ shall have rafting good time, the la
/ COON is fairly swimming with fish, and
/ black duck as well. We have four
| guns-IU get another for yOu-any
amount of tucker. and a tent. Wen
sail down to Manly in Jim Stannard's
/ fishing boat, and a spring cart will be
! waiting there to take US to Narrabeen-
1 it will be moonlight after II, and We'll
/ jog along easy, and be in camp by day
/ light"
"Ah, I wish I could go, SAINTS Just
/ the thing I like. But / can't manage
/ it. You see. / am taking home some
/ stores this evening" bag Of flour,
/ bag Of sugar. meat, and a case of gro
! Ceries. But daresay 1 could join you
in a day or two. When do you start ?''
Seven o'clock"
Tom thought moment ''That is a
/ bit late for me. I was thinking we
/ might keep company as far as Pinch
! gut"
We'll Wen say 6. Will that do?"
Yes" And thereupOn they agreed
| to meet at the Circular Quay at\that
| hour and start together Lunch over.
Tom set out for Dawes Point, intending
/ to ask Carmen Herrera to come with
him to the battery at Lady Macquarie's
/ Chair, and see the firing Of the old
muZZle loading siXty-eight-pOunder
/ guns at floating target.
/ Carmen opened the door to him. She
/ was handsome girl of H. tall for her
! age, and her dark brown hair fell in
| clustering ringlets about her shoulders.
/ according to the then prevailing fash
/ ion.
Come upstairs, Tom; mother is
/ there, just writing to your aunt to see
/ if Sable can't come to us for a few
| days. Father is asleep in the garden
as usual after lunch"
/ Mrs. Herrera was an English lady
! who had married Captain Herrera in
/ Spain, where she had been governess
| to an English family and she had lived
/ with him at CapetOwn, and then at
| Bombay before he was appointed to
! Sydney at his especial request, for his
wife's health had never been good az
! either of the former places Carmen
/ had been born in Sydney. and therefore
/ called herself an Australian girl. Like
/ her friend Tom, she was fond of the
! study of languages, and, like him also.
! had taken all the first and special
/ prizes in the girls school at Fort street.
/ much to her fathers and mothers sat
/ isfactiOn, for the family were in poor
| circumstances. Herrera's salary as
/ Spanish consul being barely sufficient
/ to enable them to keep up appearances.
/ and they felt sure that Carmen would
/ at last be able to earn her living as a
/ teacher of languages in due course.
/ and a competent teacher in Australia
was not paid the starveling fees that
were in those days gTudgingly given to
! gOVernesses and male teachers in Eng
/ land.
Between Tom and her there was a
strong comradeship cemented by an
I almost daily intercourse for two years
! past Il began in a very simple man
ner.
On the very first day that he went to
/ school. and was leaving at half-past 4
/ to go to his boat, which he had left at
one Of the Wharves on the western side
/ of the Circular Quay he noticed a little
/ girl or years of age walking IN
! front of him, and concluded by the
/ satehel of books she carried that she
was also pupil at Fort street. Just
as she was passing a row of cottages
/ in Upper Fort street she stopped down
| to tie boot la"e, and little curly
| haired French poodle. with the usual
red, bleary eyes and disgusting appear