Jake Randolph in "Bourbon On The Rocks" Pt. 115

“Hey, Jakey, don’t pity me. I don’t need that from you.”

“I’m not pitying you, Milton. You’re my friend and I’m sorry all this has happened to you.”

He smiled. “I know you’re my friend, Jakey. And I know we haven’t seen each other in a long time and things change and people change. But I knew you wouldn’t let me down. I knew you would help me.”

“How did you even know I was a private investigator?”

He grinned. “Those people I told you I shouldn’t have been hanging around with? They knew who you were. They told me.”