"That's the worst of being a police officer, and having to do with criminals.

You think whoever you come across is a rogue, until you find out he is an honest man.

Now, I think everyone is honest, till I find him out to be a rogue." "My way is the safest," the officer laughed.

"At any rate, on board this ship there are five rogues to each honest man." "Ah, but that's not a fair average," the girl objected.

"Of course, in the colony one has to be careful, considering that half the shepherds and stockmen are convicts, and I must own that the natives are nearly all thieves; but how could it be otherwise, when England sends all its rogues out to us?
You see, when free labour gets more abundant, and we can do without convicts, the colonists will protest against it." "Very likely they will," the officer agreed; "but what is England to do, if she has nowhere to send her rogues ?" "That is her business," Miss Hudson said carelessly.