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Later on he approached Steelman quietly and proposed partnership. An Incident at Stiffner's They called him "Stiffner" because he used, long before, to get a living by poisoning wild dogs near the Queensland border.
Stiffner and Box-o'-Tricks were down, two others were holding Barcoo back, and someone had pinned Awful Example by the shoulders from behind. "Let me go!" he yelled, too blind with passion to notice the movements of surprise among the men before him. "Let me go! I'll smash any man that that says a word again' a mate of mine behind his back. Barcoo, I'll have your blood! Let me go!
"Stiffner can smash us both with one hand, and if we don't pay up he'll pound our swags and cripple us. He's just the man to do it. He loves a fight even more than he hates being had." "There's only one thing to be done, Jim," says Bill, in a tired, disinterested tone that made me mad. "Well, what's than" I said. "Smoke!" "Smoke be damned," I snarled, losing my temper.
There was a great grey plain stretching away from the door in front, and a mulga scrub from the rear; and in that scrub, not fifty yards from the kitchen door, were half a dozen nameless graves. Stiffner was always drunk, and Stiffner's wife a hard-featured Amazon was boss. The children were brought up in a detached cottage, under the care of a "governess".
Stiffner had a barmaid as a bait for chequemen. She came from Sydney, they said, and her name was Alice. She was tall, boyishly handsome, and characterless; her figure might be described as "fine" or "strapping", but her face was very cold nearly colourless.
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