"You admit that! You came over here, thinking you could bluff us into letting you do it, just because you happen to wear a tin badge! I thought so.

Now, my pink-whiskered friend, you'll stop shouting and making faces; and you'll listen to me, a minute.

You aren't the first officer who has exceeded his authority on the chance that people will think he's acting within his rights.

This time the bluff fails.

With no warrant or summons or other legal power to back him, a constable has no more right on my place than any negro trespasser.