"Nobody, I hope. I'll be back in a moment."
He dashed up to Wallace's room and hammered at the door.
"Hullo, what's the matter now?" Wallace cried, as he answered the knock.
"Come down to the dining-room. Brennan is there. One of the troopers has come back. Taloona is burnt and both Dudgeon and Durham injured."
When they reached the dining-room they found Mrs. Eustace with Brennan.
"I can be of use. I know how to nurse. I've learned how to give first aid. Let me go out and attend to them till the doctor comes. He is twenty miles away, and they may bleed to death before he can get there. I've got some bandages. I'll fetch them," Mrs. Eustace was saying.
She turned as Wallace and Harding entered.
"Tell them, Brennan, while I get the things," she added as she ran out and upstairs.
"It's wicked to think of her wasted on a scoundrel like that," Brennan exclaimed. "You heard what she said, sir? I know she's the only one in the township who understands what to do till the doctor comes. We've sent a man off for him, and they're getting a party together to go out and fetch the sub-inspector and the old man in. She's offered to go too. It may save their lives, for, from what Conlon said, they're badly hurt, both of them."
"Has the gold gone?" Wallace asked.