'I guess it's up to me,' he said.

Then he turned round and came back.

'Hold on, Williams; he said.

'You know so much already about my boiler works, it wouldn't be much trouble for you to write out an account of them from the beginning, would it?
Working in the last quarter of a century of the town's progress, you know, and all that.
Come round to the office tomorrow, and I'll give you some pointers.' And he fixed up a two-column ad right away.

He was afraid I'd round on him, I suppose, if I caught him saying anything more about the immorality of subsidies." "He won't say anything more." "Probably not.