I am supposed to see that mining rights are observed, to take any criminals who kindly offer themselves up to be arrested, and to sort of handle things that are too tough for the miners themselves." "Why, you are a policeman!" said Necia, at which he made a wry face.
"The Department, in its wisdom, would have me, a tenderfoot, adjust those things that are too knotty for these men who have spent their lives along the frontier." "I don't believe you will be very popular with our people," Necia announced, meditatively.
"No.

I can see that already.

I wasn't met with any brass-bands, and I haven't received any engraved silver from the admiring citizens of Flambeau.

That leaves nothing but the women to like me, and, as you are the only one in camp, you will have to like me very much to make up for its shortcomings." She approved of his unusual drawl; it gave him a kind of deliberation which every move of his long, lithe body belied and every glance of his eyes contradicted.

Moreover, she liked his youth, so clean and fresh and strange in this land where old men are many and the young ones old with hardship and grave with the silence of the hills.