It will make us rich, and a dozen like us, and you can kiss the Book on that." "That may all be true," said I, "but why do you tell me?
Why don't you get your treasure without the need of dividing it ?" "Why, mate," he answered, "it's just plain gratitude.

Didn't you save my life, and nuss me, and take care of me when I was nigh killed ?" "Look here, Anderson, or Handy Solomon, or whatever you please to call yourself," I rejoined to this, "if you're going to do business with me--and I do not understand yet just what it is you want of me--you'll have to talk straight.

It's all very well to say gratitude, but that don't go with me.

You've been around here three months, and barring a half-dozen civil words and twice as many of the other kind, I've failed to see any indications of your gratitude before.

It's a quality with a hell of a hang-fire to it." He looked at me sideways, spat, and looked at me sideways again.