Bellshaw laughed.
"I don't expect he will," he agreed. "Who's there now looking after the place?"
"He is."
"You mean he's left Mintaro and gone to Boonara?"
"That's about it. He was in the house when I came away."
"The scoundrel. He's neglected my interests. He shall pay for it. He'd no business to leave Mintaro until I returned."
"I expect Mintaro will be all right. You've plenty of hands there."
Bellshaw laughed again.
"I daresay they'll pull through somehow," he said.
When Craig Bellshaw left him Bill went back to the coffee house, and told them he had seen him.