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WHEN the four horsemen reached the Green Hills it was to learn some dreadful news--dreadful enough to Dr. Macklewain and Mr. Bateman, but overwhelmingly disastrous to Captain Axthorpe and Red O'Shaughnessy. Emmett, Mr. Aylmer's overseer, who had been left in charge of the station when the owner went to Sydney with his daughter, lost no time in telling it after they had alighted from their horses at the homestead.
"Great George, sir!" he exclaimed excitedly as he shook hands with Captain Axthorpe. "Tis terrible tidings I've got for ye. Mr. Aylmer, sir--and Miss Marjory--they've gone--been taken away by the bushrangers."