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At
the
end
of
August
Meggie
got
a
letter
from
Luke
to
say
he
was
in
Townsville
Hospital
with
Weil
's
disease
,
but
that
he
was
in
no
danger
and
would
be
out
soon
.
"
So
it
looks
like
we
do
n't
have
to
wait
until
the
end
of
the
year
for
our
holiday
,
Meg
.
I
ca
n't
go
back
to
the
cane
until
I
'm
one
hundred
percent
fit
,
and
the
best
way
to
make
sure
I
am
is
to
have
a
decent
holiday
.
So
I
'll
be
along
in
a
week
or
so
to
pick
you
up
.
We
're
going
to
Lake
Eacham
on
the
Atherton
Tableland
for
a
couple
of
weeks
,
until
I
'm
well
enough
to
go
back
to
work
.
"
Meggie
could
hardly
believe
it
,
and
did
n't
know
if
she
wanted
to
be
with
him
or
not
,
now
that
the
opportunity
presented
itself
.
Though
the
pain
of
her
mind
had
taken
a
lot
longer
to
heal
than
the
pain
of
her
body
,
the
memory
of
her
honeymoon
ordeal
in
the
Dunny
pub
had
been
pushed
from
thought
so
long
it
had
lost
the
power
to
terrify
her
,
and
from
her
reading
she
understood
better
now
that
much
of
it
had
been
due
to
ignorance
,
her
own
and
Luke
's
.
Oh
,
dear
Lord
,
pray
this
holiday
would
mean
a
child
!
If
she
could
only
have
a
baby
to
love
it
would
be
so
much
easier
.
Anne
would
n't
mind
a
baby
around
,
she
'd
love
it
.
So
would
Luddie
.
They
had
told
her
so
a
hundred
times
,
hoping
Luke
would
come
once
for
long
enough
to
rectify
his
wife
's
barren
loveless
existence
.
When
she
told
them
what
the
letter
said
they
were
delighted
,
but
privately
skeptical
.
"
Sure
as
eggs
is
eggs
that
wretch
will
find
some
excuse
to
be
off
without
her
,
"
said
Anne
to
Luddie
.
Luke
had
borrowed
a
car
from
somewhere
,
and
picked
Meggie
up
early
in
the
morning
.
He
looked
thin
,
wrinkled
and
yellow
,
as
if
he
had
been
pickled
.
Shocked
,
Meggie
gave
him
her
case
and
climbed
in
beside
him
.
"
What
is
Weil
's
disease
,
Luke
?
You
said
you
were
n't
in
any
danger
,
but
it
looks
to
me
as
if
you
've
been
very
sick
indeed
.
"
"
Oh
,
it
's
just
some
sort
of
jaundice
most
cutters
get
sooner
or
later
.
The
cane
rats
carry
it
,
we
pick
it
up
through
a
cut
or
sore
.
I
'm
in
good
health
,
so
I
was
n't
too
sick
compared
to
some
who
get
it
.
The
quacks
say
I
'll
be
fit
as
a
fiddle
in
no
time
.
"
Climbing
up
through
a
great
gorge
filled
with
jungle
,
the
road
led
inland
,
a
river
in
full
spate
roaring
and
tumbling
below
,
and
at
one
spot
a
magnificent
waterfall
spilling
to
join
it
from
somewhere
up
above
,
right
athwart
the
road
.
They
drove
between
the
cliff
and
the
angling
water
in
a
wet
,
glittering
archway
of
fantastic
light
and
shadow
.
And
as
they
climbed
the
air
grew
cool
,
exquisitely
fresh
;
Meggie
had
forgotten
how
good
cool
air
made
her
feel
.
The
jungle
leaned
across
them
,
so
impenetrable
no
one
ever
dared
to
enter
it
.
The
bulk
of
it
was
quite
invisible
under
the
weight
of
leafy
vines
lying
sagging
from
treetop
to
treetop
,
continuous
and
endless
,
like
a
vast
sheet
of
green
velvet
flung
across
the
forest
.
Under
the
eaves
Meggie
caught
glimpses
of
wonderful
flowers
and
butterflies
,
cartwheeling
webs
with
great
elegant
speckled
spiders
motionless
at
their
hubs
,
fabulous
fungi
chewing
at
mossy
trunks
,
birds
with
long
trailing
red
or
blond
tails
.
