The troopers were civil enough, and gave me a glass of grog now and then when they had one themselves.

They'd done their duty in catching me, and that was all they thought about.

What came afterwards wasn't their look-out.

I've no call to have any bad feeling against the police, and I don't think most men of my sort have.

They've got their work to do, like other people, and as long as they do what they're paid for, and don't go out of their way to harass men for spite, we don't bear them any malice.