"I see--nothing.

Do you ?" Spargo sent a spiral of scented smoke into the air.
"I want to know an awful lot," he said.

"I'm hungering for news.

I want to know who John Marbury is.

I want to know what he did with himself between the time when he walked out of the Anglo-Orient Hotel, alive and well, and the time when he was found in Middle Temple Lane, with his skull beaten in and dead.