For his own part he had thought of a desperate band, with Harry at its head and himself in a conspicuous position, raiding the gaol at Yarraman under a hail of bullets, and bearing off the prisoner in triumph; but experience had taught him that the expedients of grown-up people were apt to be disgustingly common place and ludicrously ineffective.
'If he'd an enemy,' said Harry, 'there'd be something to go on.

Was there nobody, no one at all, that he'd had any row with--nobody who hated him ?' Mrs.Haddon shook her head.
'Nobody,' she said.

'But he declared the real thieves had done it, either to shift suspicion or to be rid of him.

He thought it a disgrace that all the men at the Stream should be marked as probable thieves because of one or two rogues; an' he was always eager to spot the real robbers.

It was known gold-stealin' had been goin' on for some time.