the neighbouring provinces. Sergeant Monk and several troopers were
stationed at Waddy, and were kept busy hunting in the old mines and all
the nooks and corners of the district. Harry Hardy joined in the hunt
throughout Tuesday. He had a feverish desire for employment--occupation
for his mind which, in spite of the efforts he made to dwell upon the
villainies of Ephraim Shine and the wrong he had done Frank, and the good
reasons he had to hate him, would revert again and again to Christina;
and then a wish, a cowardly wish, traitorous to his brother, cruel to his
mother, and false to himself, stole into his heart, and he felt for one
burning moment a hope that the searcher might escape for her sake, for
the sake of sweet Chris, whose victory over him he acknowledged and
nursed in secret with a wealth of feeling that amazed him, with a passion
he had never dreamed himself capable of. He fought this wish furiously,
as if it had been a tangible thing: grappling with it, choking it in his
heart, and stirring up in his soul a wilder hatred for his enemy.

Harry saw Chris for a moment on the morning after the arrest of Joe
Rogers; the change in her startled him, his love flamed up, and pity tore
at his heart strings. His triumph must mean suffering and shame for her.
Had he stood alone he would ten thousand times rather have borne what
misfortune might have fallen to his lot than see her shamed and
sorrowing. It was thoughts like these that rose up to make him his
brother's enemy, and they were conquered in sweat and agony; and since
his loyalty to his own kin could only be maintained at a fever heat, he
stood forth as the most bitter and implacable foe of Ephraim Shine.

Coming from Mrs. Hardy's gate on that night at about nine o'clock, Dick
Haddon collided with a breathless boy running at top speed in the
direction of the Drovers' Arms, and the two went down together. When Dick
had quite recovered he recognised the other, whom he had gripped with