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Under these circumstances it was difficult to understand why he had been
so determined in his blocking, the only reason he could ever be cajoled
into giving being "that he was off the escorting trick, and, besides, the
other chaps had to be thought of."
He was now about to go to "see to things," taking Bertie, his right-hand
boy, with him, but leaving Nellie with me. Bertie had expressed himself
quite agreeable to the arrangement, but at the eleventh hour refused to
go without Nellie; and Nellie, preferring the now fascinating homestead
to the company of her lord and master, refused to go with him, and Mac
was at his wits' end.
It was impossible to carry her off by force, so two days were spent in
shrill ear-splitting arguments the threads of Nellie's argument being
that Bertie could easily "catch nuzzer lubra," and that the missus "must
have one good fellow lubra on the staff."
Mac, always chivalrous, said he would manage somehow without Bertie,
rather than "upset things"; but the Maluka would not agree, and finally
Nellie consented to go, on condition that she would be left at the
homestead when the waggons went through.
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