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CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXII.
OBED IN A TIGHT PLACE.
It must be confessed that the reflections of Obed and the two boys were far
from pleasant. The cup of happiness had been dashed from their lips just as
they had begun to taste it. Then again it was very mortifying to watch the
exultation of Fletcher and Colson, who had finally triumphed over them
after being successfully baffled.
"The worst of it is," said Obed to Harry, who was walking alongside of
him, "that them skunks have got the best of it. It's their time to crow now."
"That's the way I feel," said Harry soberly. "I believe I would rather have
lost twice as much to anybody else."
"We haven't lost all, that's a comfort. They will take the money we have
with us, but if ever we escape to Melbourne, there is the nugget money
waiting for us."
Just then Colson stepped up with a smile on his face.
"It strikes me I've got about even with you, friend Stackpole," he said.
"Don't call me friend, Colson; I don't own any man as friend who acts like
you. So you're a bushranger, are you?"
"Certainly not," answered Colson, amazed.
"It looks like it," remarked Obed significantly.
"I am merely in the company of the bushrangers just at present."
"Aiding and abetting them in their scheming. That's so, isn't it?"
"No."
