The Moonshiner/The Distant Hills [antikvár]

To Cass she was an ice-princess with no feelings at all. Jan's heart was in a tumult. He must not know no one must knowjust what an effect he had on herJAN YEIXANB descended the síeps of íhe pláne and walked across the red earth airstrip. She felt reborn and adventurous. There was nothing in this world of shimmering beat, stillness and desert but the aeroplane behind her and a girlwho must be Shelley Eastongetting out of the station wagon a few yards ahead.Jan herself made a striking figure in that waste of red eartha delicately beautiful girl in a superb blue linen dress. Her shoes were elegant, the wide-brimmed red hat she wore was obviously French. A diamond watch gleamed on her wristCurious passengers in the pláne had tried to hazard a guess as to who she was. A model? An actress? An opera star? It was her infinitely deücate air that puzzled themdecidedly out of place in this wild cattle country of Northern Australia.In fact, Jan was flying north on a visit to her godmother3 Mrs. Atherton, of Lantana Station^ and she had quitte literally fled from her own familiar home in the south. She was in need of the most understanding sympathy, but her withdrawn, slightly aloof expression forbade familiarity.