"Nothing more than you would have expected to find! Nothing ?" Allerdyke bent across the table, giving his visitor a keen look.
"What would you have expected to find if you'd found him as I found him ?" he asked.

"Come--what, now ?" He was watching the American narrowly, and he saw that Fullaway's excitement was passing off, was being changed into an attentive eagerness.

He himself thrust his hand into his breast pocket and drew out the papers which had been accumulating there since his arrival and discovery.
"We'd best be plain, Mr.Fullaway," he said.

"I don't know you, but I gather that you knew James, and that you'd done business together." "I knew Mr.James Allerdyke very well, and I've done business with him for the last two years," replied Fullaway.
"Just so," assented Allerdyke.

"And your business--" "That of a general agent--an intermediary, if you like," answered Fullaway.