The True Story of the KellyGang of Bushrangers Chapter 18 page 4

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The night had nearly gone when Dan Kelly told the prisoners they might go home, and they were all making for the door, when Mrs Jones interfered, saying that before they departed, Ned Kelly wished to give them a lecture. The prisoners waited respectfully, and Ned, after a word or two of advice and moralising to some of the civilians, turned to Bracken and began to address him on the wickedness and laziness of a constable’s life—a subject on which he had talked seriously to McIntyre on the day of the police murders nearly two years before.

Suddenly a whistle was heard in the distance and expectant horrified silence fell upon the crowd. Ned Kelly broke off his discourse. Byrne came in from the back room, saying, ‘The train is coming.’ Ned Kelly went out to join the others; Bracken seized the opportunity to escape, locking the door behind him when he went out, and those left in the hotel heard from the back room the rattle of iron, for the Kellys were dressing themselves in the armour made from stolen ploughshares, preparing to do battle with any of the police who might escape from the wreck of the train

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