"I've lived among rough men, my darling, and instead of fearing them it has always ended that they have feared me--always, Ettie.

It's mad on the face of it! If these men, as your father says, have done crime after crime in the valley, and if everyone knows them by name, how comes it that none are brought to justice?
You answer me that, Ettie!" "Because no witness dares to appear against them.

He would not live a month if he did.

Also because they have always their own men to swear that the accused one was far from the scene of the crime.

But surely, Jack, you must have read all this.