After a considerable period spent at headquarters, I was drafted to a station in the Far West.

There was a good deal of horse and sheep-stealing going on in that particular locality, and a large amount of tact and ingenuity were necessary to discover the criminals.

I soon found that this was a business at which I was likely to be successful.

More than once I had the good fortune to be able to bring to book men who had carried on their trade for years, and who had been entirely unsuspected.

Eventually my reputation in this particular line of business became noised abroad, until it came to the ears of the Commissioner himself.