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They left the taller trees behind and the country opened out. Rounded mounds of hills, spotted pale green and yellow, seemingly soft and accessible. It was only when they came closer that she saw the hills were steep and between the spinifex were slabs of sharp flinty rock. indd 24 29/2/08 1:58:29 PM Texas 25 the road, bunches of grasses grew on the plain amongst sparsely leafed trees that seemed denser as they receded into the distance. She looked down on a lizard and caught the inside of its mouth, framed by the frill around its neck, as it stood briefly on splayed legs before disappearing into the grass as the wheels rolled past it.
She broke one in half and threw it away. Sharp-beaked birds fluttered in the branches above. A grey bird with black speckles around its neck, a dove perhaps, dropped into the dirt like a helicopter landing and scattered dust and debris. It cooed and she realised it was the bird responsible for the persistent call she had heard in the distance whenever the bus had stopped for food. The driver said it was a peaceful dove. Whoever named it must have been comfortable in this strange outback land. Not crushed by the weight of its sky.
The coppers were buggered. They couldn’t find him. No one could. There were stories flying around as to where he was hiding but only the old women at Kelly’s place thought he might be close by. It was one of Kelly’s old girls who spotted signs of him one day. That boy, they called the bushranger, had been terrorising for near two years. She was looking for some stray goats along a dry creek bed when she saw marks of someone trying to cover their tracks in the sand. She went back to the homestead and told Kelly and he sent her and one of his men on to a coppers’ outpost.