Chapter IX: Part 9

"The pack-horse train a realized fact!" exclaimed Mr. Bowen.--"Come, Arthur; that means for us the rest of our journey made easy. We must be ready for a start at any hour."

"If your time is to be my time," interposed Ottley, who was entering at the moment, "we shall all wait for the morning."

"Wait for the morning," repeated the captain, as he lit his pipe. "There is a bigger world of wisdom in that bit of advice than you think for. It is what we have all got to do at times, as we sailors soon find out."

A light tread beneath the window caught Edwin's ear. Surely he knew that step. It was--it must be Whero's.

He was out on the veranda in a moment. There was his Maori friend wandering round the house in the brilliant starshine, stroking his kaka.

"I cannot live upon my hill alone," said Whero. "I have followed you, but I should cry hoke to you in vain. I will take my bird and go back to Tuaranga--it will be safe among my Maori school-fellows--until hunger shall have passed away from the hills."

Edwin's arm went round him as he cried out gleefully, "Ottley, Ottley, here are two more passengers for the pack-horse train!"

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