rugged, forcible fist, arrived for
Charlie Gordon from a young fellow named Redshaw, once a station-hand on
Kuryong, who had gone out to the back-country and was rather a celebrity
in his way. His father was a pensioner at the old station, and Redshaw
junior, who was known as Flash Jack, evidently kept in touch with things
at Kuryong. He wrote

Dear Sir,

I hear from Gannon the trooper that you want to find Keogh. When he left
the coach that time, he went back to the station and got his horses, and
cleared out, and he is now hiding in Reeves's buffalo camp at the back
of Port Faraway. If I hear any more will let you know.

J. REDSHAW, alas 'Flash Jack.'

"What's all this?" said Pinnock, when Charlie and Carew brought him the
letter. "Who is J. Redshaw, and why does he sign "alas Flash Jack?"

"He means Alias, don't you see? Alias Flash Jack. He is a man we used
to have on the station, and his father used to work for us--I expect he
wants to do us a good turn."

"It will be a good turn in earnest, if he puts you in the way of finding
Considine," said the lawyer. "You will have to send Hugh up. The old
man knows you and Carew, and if he saw you coming he would take to the
woods, as the Yankees say. Even when you do get him the case isn't
over, because the jury will side with Peggy. They'll sympathise with
her efforts to prove herself an honest woman. It isn't marrying too much
that will get her into trouble--it's the other thing. But we have the
date and place of her alleged marriage with William Grant; and if this
old Considine can prove, by documents, mind you, not by his own simple
word--because it's a hundred to one the jury wouldn't believe him--I
say, if he can prove that she married him on that very day and at that
very place, then she's beaten. No one on earth could swallow the story
of her marrying two different people on the same day."

"Hugh can go," said Charlie. "He'll have to do his best this time. It
all depends on getting hold of this Considine, eh? Well, Hugh 'll have
to get him. If he fails he needn't show his face amongst us any more."

Mary Grant was called in and told the great news, and then Pinnock
started out to find Hugh. But before the lawyer could see him, Mary met
him in the garden.

Hugh did not see that he could be of any use in the case, and wanted to
be quit of Kuryong for good. Seeing Mary day after day, he had become
more and more miserable as the days went by. He determined at