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Richard ‘Maxwell’ Smart was thinking about Tracy. Thoughts of what she and the children must be going through seemed to dominate his mind to the point where he found himself distracted from the task at hand – finding them.
As often as his job would allow, Smart drove to Haasts Bluff to spend time with her. Sometimes, on weekends when there was no school, Tracy would drive up and stay with him in his accommodation at Papunya. It was only a few weeks ago, when the school holidays coincided with his annual leave that they spent two weeks together touring Kakadu National Park in the tropical north-east of the Territory.
There had been girlfriends before Tracy, but none of them had the effect on him that she did. He often found himself wondering, just like he was now, what that might mean
