Wombo

She supposed that he was infuriated with her because of her part in Wombo's escape, and she thought his anger unjust.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

However, he's satisfied that Wombo is securely locked up and an extra glass of grog and a hint that, as he hasn't provided himself with a warrant there's no obligation on him to stand over his prisoner with a loaded gun, eased his mind of responsibility.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

And I couldn't sleep now until I know that Wombo is safe in the scrub. '

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

She brought them cooked meat, bread and a ration of tea and sugar, provided them with a pair of blankets, and found for Wombo some old moleskins, a shirt, and a pair of boots, while Oola almost forgot the medicine man's evil spell in her puzzled delight over a lacey undergarment and a discarded kimono dressing-grown, which had been part of Lady Bridget's trousseau.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

She stole the key from Mr Maule's room when he was asleep, and let Wombo out when you were asleep – a longer time perhaps than you imagined, Harris.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

Well, I can tell you that it was the half-caste woman, as I thought, who let Wombo out of the hide-house.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

Moongarr Bill and Wombo, who had gone on ahead, were fixing camp.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

With one hand he clutched Wombo, with the other Oola, who in her lace-trimmed petticoat and flowered kimono was truly a tragi-comic spectacle.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

Then as McKeith drew up his horses in front of the hotel, Wombo and Moongarr Bill sprang to the heads of wheelers and leaders.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

He did not know the country at the head of the gully, where he concluded that Wombo was hiding, and lost himself in the gidia scrub.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915