They pay because if they don't-no matter who they are, what they're doing-a word from him against them, and back they'd go to the Darbies and the cells.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Oh, you're snared, my pretty bird, and there's no way out for you, if you'd keep Dan Farrel, as he calls himself, out of the Darbies, and him in his blindness, going to the Island again!
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
"Mike," said the man in the derby, "put th' Darbies on th' Sneak.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath