I don't think there are many men in the force who could hold their own with you, in a grapple.
"And now to business.

You have heard of that affair of Inspector Thomas, in the Goora district--it was a bad business.

He and two of his men were out, after some natives who had driven off cattle; and he was set upon by a party of bush rangers, and he and his men killed." "So I heard, sir," Reuben said quietly.
"Well, I have decided in sending you up in his place.

It is a bad district--the worst we have, at present--and it needs a man of great resolution, and intelligence.

I am sure that you have plenty of both, and that I cannot make a better choice than in sending you there.