Both those reasons make me 'specially anxious to have you tell me the truth.

Heave ahead now, to oblige me." "Well, I found him very polite and cordial, at first.

He said that a ridiculous and sensational story concerning the Trolley Combine had appeared in the _Planet_, and he would like to have me contradict it and suppress further falsehoods of the kind.

I told him I couldn't do that, because the story was true.

I had written it myself.