[ { "chunk": 192, "story": 34, "summary": "Mitchell tells his mate about a girl visiting his sister whom he loved but thought too good for a rough, ugly man like him, so he kept away and took two or three years' work near the border.", "predicament": "A rough man sure the woman he loves could never want him keeps his distance, and takes work far away to escape it." }, { "chunk": 193, "story": 34, "summary": "On the platform as he left she cried and held up her arms to him; his mate asks if he will go back and marry her some day.", "predicament": "At the last moment before leaving, a man learns that the woman he kept away from loved him all along." }, { "chunk": 194, "story": 34, "summary": "'Some day,' says Mitchell bitterly: he swore never to go home without a cheque, the cheque days are over, and the track slowly turns a man's heart into a bullock's.", "predicament": "A man who swore never to go home without money to show has been on the road so long he has stopped hoping." }, { "chunk": 195, "story": 34, "summary": "He admits he is out of sorts, and they roll out their swags for the long dry stretch tomorrow.", "predicament": "A man who opened his heart for a moment closes it again and settles down before the long, hard day ahead." } ]