"What have you found out?"
"I've found a man who seems to know of Shelby's crookedness, and is willing to tell what he knows."
"Well?"
"Jap Hinchey."
Graves's face lengthened.
"That beast," said he.
"Did you expect a Sir Galahad for such a service?"
"What would the word of such a man avail?"
"As much as any informer's; it isn't a chivalrous office."
"Nor is ours in employing it, to my thinking; informer and reformer sound perilously near alike. Still, as you delicately imply, we're not Knights of the Round Table. What has the sot had to say to you?"