Jake Randolph in "The Eternal Night" Pt. 126

"I gotta hand it to you, Randolph," Sperry said. "You haven't just been training Brick Mason, the detective. You've also been training Brick Mason, the man!"

I was still fuming but I was proud of Mason. He'd come a long way in just a few days.

"Listen, Sperry," I said, "I got as much info as I could because you said you knew next-to-nothing about Lily. Now if it's just the dirt you want, I'm afraid when Mason and I get back from San Francisco we're going to have more dirt on Lily than you can wash off."