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    Stingaree
    Stingaree
    Stingaree
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    Stingaree

    By Ernest William Hornung

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    This story is set in the outback of rural New South Wales, Australia. A young woman, Hilda Bouverie, is startled by the appearance of a man whom she has never met, while she is playing the piano and singing in the belief that she is entirely alone.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN4064066062835
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      Book preview

      Stingaree - Ernest William Hornung

      Ernest William Hornung

      Stingaree

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066062835

      Table of Contents

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      A Voice in the Wilderness

      II

      The Black Hole of Glenranald

      To the Vile Dust

      A Bushranger at Bay

      The Taking of Stingaree

      The Honor of the Road

      The Purification of Mulfera

      A Duel in the Desert

      The Villain-Worshipper

      The Moth and the Star

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      Facing page

      Stingaree

      Table of Contents

      A Voice in the Wilderness

      Table of Contents

      I

      MISS BOUVERIE ceased on the high note, as abruptly as string that snaps beneath the bow, and revolved with the music-stool, to catch but her echoes in the empty room. None had entered behind her back; there was neither sound nor shadow in the deep veranda through the open door. But for the startled girl at the open piano, Mrs. Clarkson's sanctum was precisely as Mrs. Clarkson had left it an hour before; her own photograph, in as many modes, beamed from the usual number of ornamental frames; there was nothing whatever to confirm a wild suspicion of the living lady's untimely return. And ​ yet either guilty conscience, or an ear as sensitive as it was true, had heard an unmistakable step outside.

      Hilda Bouverie lived

      to look magnificent when she sang, her fine frame drawn up to its last inch, her throat a pillar of pale coral, her mouth the perfect round, her teeth a noble relic of barbarism; but sweeter she never was than in these days, or at this moment of them, as she sat with lips just parted and teeth just showing, in a simple summer frock of her own unaided making. Her eyes, of the one deep Tasmanian blue, were still open very wide, but no longer with the same apprehension; for a step there was, but a step that jingled; nor did they recognize the silhouette in top-boots which at length stood bowing on the threshold.

      Please finish it! prayed a voice that Miss Bouverie liked in her turn; but it was too much at ease for one entirely strange to her, and she rose with little embarrassment and no hesitation at all.

      Indeed, no! I thought I had the station to myself.

      So you had—I have not seen a soul.

      Miss Bouverie instantly perceived that honors were due from her.

      ​I am so sorry! You've come to see Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson? she cried. Mrs. Clarkson has just left for Melbourne with her maid, and Mr. Clarkson has gone mustering with all his men. But the Indian cook is about somewhere. I'll find him, and he shall make some tea.

      The visitor planted himself with much gallantry in the doorway; he was a man still young, with a single eye-glass and a martial mustache, which combined to give distinction to a somewhat swarthy countenance. At the moment he had also an engaging smile.

      I didn't come to see either Mr. or Mrs. Clarkson, said he; in fact, I never heard their name before. I was passing the station, and I simply came to see who it was who could sing like that—to believe my own ears!

      Miss Bouverie was thrilled. The stranger spoke with an authority that she divined, a sincerity which she instinctively took on trust. Her breath came quickly; she was a little nervous now.

      If you won't sing to my face, he went on, I must go back to where I hung up my horse, and pray that you will at least send me on my way rejoicing. You will do that in any case. I didn't know there was such a voice in these parts. You sing a good deal, of course?

      ​I haven't sung for months.

      He was now in the room; there was no longer any necessity to bar the doorway, and the light coming through fell full on his amazement. The girl stood before him with a calm face, more wistful than ironic, yet with hints of humor in the dark blue eyes. Her companion put up the eye-glass which he had dropped at her reply.

      May I ask what you are doing in these wilds?

      Certainly. I am Mrs. Clarkson's companion.

      And you sing, for the first time in months, the minute her back is turned: has the lady no soul for music?

      You had better ask the lady.

      And her visible humor reached the corners of Miss Bouverie's mouth.

      She sings herself, perhaps?

      And I am here to play her accompaniments!

      The eye-glass focussed the great, smiling girl.

      "Can she sing?"

      She has a voice.

      But have you never let her hear yours?

      Once. I had not been here long enough to know better. And I made my usual mistake.

      What is that?

      ​I thought I had the station to myself.

      The questioner bowed to his rebuke. Well? he persisted none the less.

      "I was told exactly what my voice was like,

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