I am grateful for your news.

You have the particulars?
Captain Willoughby was in peril, and Harry came to his aid ?" "No, it was not that exactly." "Tell me! Tell me!" He feared to miss a word.

Durrance related the story of the Gordon letters, and their recovery by Feversham.

It was all too short for Lieutenant Sutch.
"Oh, but I am glad you came," he cried.
"You understand at all events," said Durrance, "that I have not come to repeat to you the questions I asked in the courtyard of my club.

I am able, on the contrary, to give you information." Sutch spoke to the pony and drove on.