Most of the Nomah people looked upon fellows stealing cattle or horses, in small lots or big, just like most people look at boys stealing fruit out of an orchard, or as they used to talk of smugglers on the English coast, as I've heard father tell of.

Any man might take a turn at that sort of thing, now and then, and not be such a bad chap after all.

It was the duty of the police to catch him.

If they caught him, well and good, it was so much the worse for him; if they didn't, that was their look-out.

It wasn't anybody else's business anyhow.