CHAPTER XXIX
MAN AND HORSE LAY SIDE BY SIDE
There was some earnest conversation between Bellshaw and his overseer on the way to Sydney.
"You'll do it," said Bellshaw. "Promise me you'll do it, and I'll give you fifty pounds down."
"I'll manage it," said Wimpole.
"I shall be with the horse all the time, until he mounts, to see they don't tamper with him," he added with a wink.
Bellshaw laughed. They had hatched a wicked plot against Glen Leigh, and Wimpole was to carry it out.
"There'll be trouble if it's discovered," said Wimpole.
"You're not going to back down?"