As soon as they were gone, the two new chums looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"So, you're a jolly girl, May!"
"And you're a bit of a star."
"Come, let's get ahead of them at any rate. We'll see if girls are so much in the way, Mr. Hal. I consider it a gross piece of impertinence," said Hil, leading the way with an air of injured dignity.
"A nobbler of brandy please, miss, and let me have a flask too," said Wyck, hurriedly entering the saloon, for his cab was waiting to take him to the station.
The 6.30 express started for Toowoomba, taking five people, divided into three parties, each party quite unaware of the presence of the others. A lady had shadowed the boys to the station, and seeing them enter the train, left hastily for the Post Office, whence she despatched the following telegram:
Wyckliffe, Toowoomba. They left by to-night's express for Toowoomba. Danger. Sal.