It's a tough proposition.

Somehow or other, I want to be quits with Mason.

I want to wipe out those obligations.

If I could do that, the next time I saw him I'd hand him over." "You're a sentimental duffer, Crawffy," said the artist, smiling.
"And I shouldn't love him at all if he wasn't," the wife defended.
"But this Webb affair doesn't add up right," said Killigrew morosely.
"There's th' hull game," declared Haggerty.

"It's nothing but adding an' subtracting, this gum-shoe work.