"That's what I've come about.

Bit of information, on the quiet, eh?
Strictly between our two selves--for the present." Stebbing nodded and winked, as if he had been doing business with detectives all his life.

"To be sure, sir, to be sure!" he responded with alacrity.

"Just between you and me and the door post!-all right.
Anything I can do, Mr.Jettison, shall be done.

But it's more in the way of what I can tell, I suppose ?" "Something of that sort," replied Jettison in his slow, easy-going fashion.