Being confided in by nearly every man who met her was a habit.

But Grim tells only when the telling may accomplish something, and I wondered, as he laid his elbow on the table to begin, just what use he meant to make of Mabel Ticknor.

He uses what he knows as other level-headed men use coin, spending thriftily for fair advantage.
"That is secret," he began, as soon as Mabel had dumped the contents of the billy into a huge brown teapot.

"I expect Narayan Singh here presently.

He'll have a letter with him, taken from the Syrian who stabbed that man in the hospital." "Whoa, hoss!" Jeremy interrupted.