She would have stayed him but he put her gently back, and she said
plaintively: "God keep you, Edward. Remember you said that you would
come again to me."

"I shall remember," he said quietly, and he was gone. Standing in the
light from the window of the sick man's room he wrote a line in Latin on
a slip of paper, begging of Louis Bachelor the mercy of silence, and gave
it to Gongi, who whispered that he was surrounded. This he knew; he had
not studied sounds in prison through the best years of his life for
nothing. He asked Gongi to give the note to his master when he was
better, and when it could be done unseen of any one. Then he turned and
walked coolly towards the shore.

A few minutes later he lay upon a heap of magnolia branches breathing his
life away. At the same moment of time that a rough but kindly hand
closed the eyes of the bushranger, the woman from The Angel's Rest and
Louis Bachelor saw the pale face of Roadmaster peer through the bedroom
window at Barbara Golding sitting in a chair asleep; and she started and
said through her half-wakefulness, looking at the window: "Where are you
going, Edward?"






THE LONE CORVETTE

"And God shall turn upon them violently, and toss them like a ball
into a large country."--ISAIH.