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And now, after hauling the reader pretty well all over Australia-from mountain-station to out-back holding, from cattle-camp to buffalo run-we must ask him to take a seat in the Supreme Court at Sydney, to hear the trial of the "great Grant Will Case."
Gavan Blake had made no effort towards compromise. He knew the risk he was running, but he had determined to see it through. The love, the ambition, the hope that had once possessed him had turned to a grim desperate hatred, and he would risk everything rather than withdraw the case. He kept Red Mick and Peggy up to the mark with assurances that she was certain to win. Neither he nor they knew that Considine had been found. Even the most respectable solicitors sometimes display acuteness, and the old man's return had been kept secret by Pinnock, so that public opinion anticipated Peggy's victory.