I determined to have a bodyguard.

I wanted a man inured to danger; one capable of meeting violence with violence, if the need arose.

It struck me that if I could get into touch with one of those chivalrous Western outlaws, of whom we read in American works of fiction, he would be just the sort of man I needed to protect me from Reginald Maltravers.
"I did not consider appealing to the authorities, for I have no confidence in your American laws, Mr.Cleggett.

But I did not know how to go about finding a chivalrous Western outlaw.

So finally I put an advertisement in the personal column of one of your morning papers for a reformed convict." "A reformed convict!" exclaimed Cleggett.