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With their digging interrupted Tyler turned his mind to other things. Time was not an issue for them as they’d planned to stay three or four nights anyway. Instead they would make a start on their other project and continue at the trench in the morning.
On reaching the Lucy Creek road he braked, then changed down to fourth and turned left, north toward the station homestead. On speeding up again he switched back to fifth.
He’d handled the policeman well, he assured himself, though the fellow’s seeming appearance from nowhere had come as a surprise. Despite this he’d turned the situation to their advantage: as of now this simpleton in a police uniform would have them making for Alice Springs.