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Sixteen gentlemen were seated in the Majors smoking-room. For mutual protection they had ridden in a body to the "Folly" from Ballina through the strikers' camp. They were dressed in bush riding costume, and all were belted with revolvers. They had left the town perfectly quiet and almost empty, no one had offered to molest them on their journey, and yet each of them wore a gloomy and discontented look.
Some of them smoked, but none spoke. They were awaiting the arrival of Dr. Culgin, who was closeted in another chamber with Major Reay and a sergeant of police. The sergeant had just arrived with a copy of the strikers' latest manifesto which he had torn from a hoarding a few minutes earlier while the paste upon its back surface was yet moist.