“That’s right,” he replied. “We’re going back to Normanton tonight and night-stopping there, and back to the Curry tomorrow morning. I’m going into town now while Al fills her up. Take off in about half an hour.”
Cloncurry was the last place that she wanted to go back to. “I’ll have to think about this,” she said. “I’ll have to stay in Australia, till I’ve seen Joe Harman. Cairns is a nice place to stay, isn’t it?”
“Oh, Cairns is a bonza town,” he said. “Townsville, too. If you’ve got to wait six or eight weeks you don’t want to wait here, Miss Paget.”
“How could I get to Cairns?” she asked.
“Well,” he said. “You could come back with me to Cloncurry and then go by train to Townsville and up to Cairns. I don’t quite know how long that would take in the train—it must be between six and s
