The agent of an unknown force that was snooping around the World Stone talked at length, not bothering to conceal what he called 'superficial' information.
In his opinion, it held almost no value in the current setting, where it was - he had every reason to suspect and assume - already obtained by his counterpart.
An unfortunate, but ultimately not a disastrous circumstance.
Despite that, at times he discreetly probed Old Yen's companion - the main cause of that circumstance - by starting to deviate from truth, closely watching if the man would correct him.
He did so in order to probe whether Old Yen already possessed this information, and whether he was actually giving something of value when he thought he was not.
