CHAPTER L.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1636, 30 December 1882, Page 5

CHAPTER L.

With morning came the wished for breeze — a very gentle one, though — so that it was some time before we found ourselves off Grantville, a place consisting, as the old man had told us, of only three or four houses' in all. Two of these were hotels, 1 which apparently owed their existence to the numerous saw-mills in the hill behind, and from one of these mills, far up amongst the denselytimbered ranges, a tramway led down to the beach, and ran out upon the wooden jetty, from which a couple of small crafts were busy loading the sawn timber. Hauling alongside this, Mucklebody landed me, and in' five minutes I returned to the cutter with a letter, which I sat down on the deck to read, as we moved away again. And a startling letter it was. Addison was dead— shot by a bushranger ! But what was more, his name had not been Walter Addison,' only — but Walter Addison Warwick 1 Yes — Mad Addison was no other than the long lost Lieutenant Warwick; ,and, as according to the letter, he had left no will, the solemn-faced : Fysshe\ sitting stolidy there in the bows, was in all probability the next of kin and the heir-at-law. 11 Glad of' it J" 'said Shuter, when I quietly mentioned the circumstance to' him. " Would be glad,' th.at is, wpre it ' not on Walter's account. Queer card, Fysshe, no doubt ; but . good fellow at the bottom. Supports two . sisters out of his salary — not a very large one either. Will ybu^tell hirm now ?" " Well, no," I'answered, in low tones. " I think it would be better to wait until it is certain that there is no will. , One may turn ' up i after< all, you know."' < , i "True* What about the . bushranging affair-? Suppose it^inthe Melbourne papers' — if we could get at.thern/Ji >': . 'V 1 - , "PwiH >readi you,; the letter,'M replied.* ','You must > know that when Julian, >as we .'must now call Walter, arrived at Yaramboona i he;found Addison, of rathfer Warwick, seriouslyill from ttjet effects of drink; add*, decided ;,upon> remaining .with' hint! till he should be better.?;' -This- ,was soon the- case, and- in Julian's last letter, he described'! Warwick as though-still , very 10w. , ' ; . * i{ '"'' "fa' , ■ ;- (To ,be cpnMnved.) • •-<