He is thick with Munro, and they keep together at all times, I believe.

He has money, and knows how to spend it.

Where he gets it is quite another thing." "What can be the source of the intimacy between himself and Munro?
Is he interested in the hotel ?" "Why, I can't say for that, but I think not.

The fact is, the tavern is nothing to Munro; he don't care a straw about it, and some among us do whisper that he only keeps it a-going as a kind of cover for other practices.

There's no doubt that they drive some trade together, though what it is I can't say, and never gave myself much trouble to inquire.