Outlaw and Lawmaker

OUTLAW AND LAWMAKER. CHAPTER I. ELSIE. Anyone who has travelled through Australia will identify the Leichardt's Land of these pages, though in the map it is called differently, with that colony in which the explorer Leichardt met his tragic fate, and to a part of which he gave his name, and the same

CHAPTER II. THE LEGEND OF BARÒLIN. "Ah!" Frank Hallett drew a long breath and stood in silent thought for a minute or more, Elsie watching him all the time saying nothing. The interest, half indignant, half admiring, and with a dash of the humorous in it, which Elsie's account of the sticking up of

CHAPTER III. LORD AND LADY HORACE AT HOME. Lord Horace was scrambling up the bank, leaning well over his saddle bow and clinging to his horse's mane. His seat was a little uncertain, and it was evident that he was only a spurious sort of bush man, in spite of his rather elaborate bush get-up of Crim

CHAPTER IV. ELSIE'S LOVER. They were sitting down to dinner when the barking of the dogs announced an arrival. Presently the woman in the kitchen came in with a slip of paper, on which was written, "Dominic Trant, of Baròlin." "By Jove!" exclaimed Lord Horace, "he has taken me at my word.

CHAPTER V. A GAUNTLET TO FATE. Mr. Trant went away the next morning.

CHAPTER VI. THE COMING OF THE PRINCE. Elsie seemed a little depressed for a week after Frank Hallett's visit. She felt that she had committed herself.

CHAPTER VII. "I FOLLOW MY STAR." When Elsie Valliant set her heart upon doing any particular thing, she usually had her way. She had set her heart upon going to Goondi during the election week, and so she persuaded Lady Horace to take her. They rode to the Bean tree Crossing, as the Telegraph Statio

CHAPTER VIII. THE MEMBER FOR LUYA. It was early morning before Elsie fell asleep. She slept late.

CHAPTER IX. A BUSH HOUSE PARTY. Tunimba was considered one of the most beautiful statons on the Luya. It was almost in the shadow of Mount Luya and of the twin peaks of the Burrum.

CHAPTER X. JENSEN'S GHOST. "Well," she said. "Why?" "Why!" he repeated.

CHAPTER XI. ON THE RACE-COURSE. The head station at Tunimba was astir betimes, and long before the big bell clanged for breakfast, preparations on the race-course had begun and flags marked the line of running, and waved on the top of an extemporized Grand Stand. Frank Hal let t was waiting in the v

CHAPTER XII. BEELZEBUB'S COLOURS. The first race was over when Elsie and Blake reached the course. What could they have been talking about during that homeward ride, to make them linger so long?

CHAPTER XIII. "HEARTS NOT IN IT." The greater number of the guests left on the morrow. The Horace Gages, and Elsie, as well as the Baròlin gentlemen, the Garfits, and one or two of the Leichardt's Town people had been asked to stay a day longer, to join a riding party, which Frank Hallett had organi

CHAPTER XIV. "ARE WE ENEMIES?" Baròlin was only a bachelors' house, and a bachelors' house of the roughest kind, as Trant and Blake impressed upon their guests. But there were things in it which one does not usually find in a bachelor's dwelling in the bush—notably a piano, which Lord Horace insiste

CHAPTER XV. A VERANDAH RECEPTION. It seemed to Elsie that never in all her life long should she forget that moonlight ride. The sun was setting when they found the horses.

CHAPTER XVI. "TRANT'S WARNING." Every one said that this was going to be one of the gayest winters there had ever been in Leichardt's Town. The Birthday Ball was heralded by several smaller entertainments. The Garfits gave an impromptu dance, to which they were compelled to invite Elsie, though befo

CHAPTER XVII. IN THE LADIES' GALLERY. The Ladies' Gallery was crowded. It had been set about that Blake was an orator, that his speech would be a stirring one, and already the picturesque personality of the man had impressed Leichardt's Town society.

CHAPTER XVI. "NINON, NINON, QUE JAIS TU DE LA VIE." Elsie wore at the Garfits' the white dress that Blake had seen her stitching. She had copied it from an old print. It hung in soft folds to her feet, and she had a little frilled fichu of muslin knotted at her breast, and where it was knotted there

CHAPTER XIX. THE CLUB BALL. Elsie sobbed all night, the sobs of outraged maidenhood. He had conquered.

CHAPTER XX. LORD ASTAR'S ATTENTIONS As they went in from the dim garden and through the verandah, which was like a conservatory, with its decorations of palms, Elsie's dazzled eyes seemed to see in the glare of the ball-room beyond, only one face and form, and those belonged to Blake. He was standin

CHAPTER XXI. "AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE." It was the last night but one of the Prince's stay, and the Birthnight Ball, long after date, had been fixed for that evening. The occasion was to be one of unusual splendour. Mrs.

CHAPTER XXIII. A SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT. Ina Gage was waiting anxiously for the re-appearance of Frank Hallett. Mrs.

CHAPTER XXIV. "GOOD-BYE, ELSIE VALLIANT." Lord Horace's evening at the club and Minnie Pryde's confidences to her after-supper partners had spread the news of Elsie's engagement far and wide. At the meeting of the Assembly the next afternoon, Frank Hallett was congratulated both by his own side and

CHAPTER XXV. "THE COLONIAL SECRETARY ON THE LUYA." Luya Dell was in a state of excitement. Workmen were busy at the new house, and curious looking "lean-to's" had been extemporized under the white gum trees at the back of the homestead. Lord Horace was in his element.