"Just let him wait and see.

There isn't a man in the county who wants Dave Fulsbee about now." "Then what a disappointed crowd they're going to be," remarked Tom pleasantly, "for Mr.Newnham is going to make Dave chief of detectives for the company, at a salary of something like six thousand a year.
"He is, oh ?" gulped down Sheriff Grease.

"I'll bet he won't.

I'll protest against that, right from the start." "Dave will be our chief of detectives, if you protest all night and some more in the morning," returned Tom Reade.

"And Dave, I reckon, is going to need a force of at least forty men under him.