"I'm your chief of police."
"Has she complained?"
"Yes."
"To you?"
"Yes, but leaving her out of the question, you ought to hobble Appah or let me hobble him."
"Oh, I think he knows I'm agent."
"You let him play a free hand."
"Do I? What do you mean?"
"The last time I arrested him you let him go."
"Appah is a difficult person, very cunning, very influential. He would have posed as a martyr. The cowboys were the aggressors."