It was partly so he could see all around and be sure no one was coming.
"Well, why do you want to know ?" he said.
"Because I'm a friend of Skinny's, that's why," I said.

Then I just blurted out, "I might as well tell you because, anyway, you're smarter than I am.

They found a key on Skinny." He just said, "When ?" "To-day," I said, "and it's probably a key to one of the lockers in our house-boat.

Besides, that fellow who nearly got drowned had about a couple of hundred dollars on him." "Humph, I thought so," Winton said.
I said, "Why ?" "Oh, just because," he said.

"The day he came over to try to buy a fishing-pole he had a roll as big as a cobblestone with him.