But I have taken a little trouble, etc.

As a matter of friendship--no?
Then we'll drop the subject.

By the by have you a black-and-tan to dispose of ?" He passed into a vein so chatty and so amiable that Gammon began to repent of distrusting him.

Besides, his information might be really valuable and could not easily be obtained in any other way.
"Look here, Greenacre, I don't see why I shouldn't tell you.

The fact is, a man I used to know has disappeared, and I want to find him.