Don't we all know what it leads to! Wouldn't it be better to live on dry bread and be honest than to be full of money and never know the day when you'd be dragged to gaol ?' 'I've heard all that before; but ain't there lots of people that have made their money by all sorts of villainy, that look as well as the best, and never see a gaol ?' 'They're always caught some day,' says poor Aileen, sobbing, 'and what a dreadful life of anxiety they must lead!' 'Not at all,' I said.

'Look at Lucksly, Squeezer, and Frying-pan Jack.
Everybody knows how they got their stock and their money.

See how they live.

They've got stations, and public-house and town property, and they get richer every year.

I don't think it pays to be too honest in a dry country.' 'You're a naughty boy, Dick; isn't he, Jim ?' she said, smiling through her tears.