Sentence:  You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a <WSD>swell</WSD>—you and the gods! 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person of high social standing; an important person.