Wings Above the Diamantina. Arthur W. Upfield

life as a stockman? What chance have I, for that matter? I have asked for a transfer until I’m sick of asking.”

      Bony’s eyelids drooped. He sensed the almost extinguished ambition in the other, and, gauging it by his own illimitable ambitions, he read the book of life plainly in this police office.

      “Perhaps you will gain promotion out of this aeroplane case,” he suggested softly.