en up.

Accident led the gold miners, who were anxious to find a practicable
track to the gullies at the foot of Nulla Mountain, to observe a narrow
winding way apparently leading over the brow of the precipice on its
western face. To their surprise, half hidden by a fallen tree, they
discovered a difficult but practicable track down a gully which finally
opened out into a broad well-grassed valley of considerable extent, in
which cattle and horses were grazing.

No signs of human habitation were at first visible, but after a patient
search a cave in the eastern angle of the range was discovered. Fires
had been lighted habitually near the mouth, and near a log two saddles
and bridles--long unused--lay in the tall grass. Hard by was stretched
the body of a man of swarthy complexion. Upon examination the skull was
found to be fractured, as if by some blunt instrument. A revolver of
small size lay on his right side.

Proceeding to the interior of the cave, which had evidently been used
as a dwelling for many years past, they came upon the corpse of another
man, in a sitting posture, propped up against the wall. One arm rested
upon an empty spirit-keg, beside which were a tin pannikin and a few
rude cooking utensils. At his feet lay the skeleton of a dog. The whole
group had evidently been dead for a considerable time. Further search
revealed large supplies of clothes, saddlery, arms, and ammunition--all
placed in recesses of the cave--besides other articles which would
appear to have been deposited in that secure receptacle many years
since.

As may be imagined, a large amount of interest, and even excitement,
was caused when the circumstances, as reported to the police, became
generally known. A number of our leading citizens, together with many
of the adjoining station holders, at once repaired to the spot. No
difficulty was felt in identifying the bodies as those of Ben Marston,
the father of the two bush-rangers of that name, and of Warrigal, the
half-caste follower always seen in attendance upon the chief of the
gang, the celebrated Starlight.

How the last members of this well-known, long-dreaded gang of
freebooters had actually perished can only be conjectured, but taking
the surrounding circumstances into consideration, and the general
impression abroad that Warrigal was the means of putting the police upon
the track of Richard Marston, which led indirectly to the death of his
master and of James Marston, the