Men must live; and what were a few sheep?
Of some such it might be said, that though they were above the arts by which the Brownbies lived, they were not very scrupulous themselves; and it perhaps served them to have within their ken neighbours whose morality was lower even than their own.

But to such a one as Harry Heathcote the Brownbies were utterly abominable.

He was for the law and justice at any cost.

To his thinking, the Colonial Government was grossly at fault, because it did not weed out and extirpate not only the identical Brownbies, but all Brownbieism wherever it might be found.

A dishonest workman was a great evil, but, to his thinking, a dishonest man in the position of master was the incarnation of evil.
As to the difficulties of evidence, and obstacles of that nature, Harry Heathcote knew nothing.