Not know Jim saw dem.

Secret sort of talk.

Why dey never find de tracks before black fellows and bush rangers always get away?
Jim tink those fellows no good." Reuben himself had often thought it singular that such continued bad luck should have attended the efforts of his predecessor to hunt down the bush rangers, but the thought that they had been put off their scent by the trackers had not occurred to him.

He had the greatest faith in Jim's sagacity and, now that the idea was presented to him, it seemed plausible enough.
"Very good, Jim, you keep your eye on those fellows.

I will do the same.