human
Guess that fire helped me as much as it hurt me. I'll have to build a new shanty; but Doc Leffert was in here and said he'd rode over my piece, and that my heaps of rubbish had burned clean and all I'd have to do to clear my acres for corn would be to tam-harrow it.
gpt
Hebe isn't getting along as fast as you do, Mr. Billson,
human
Dunno as he deserves any better than he's got,
gpt
What you so cross about? laughed Chet.
human
Surely you're not sore over the way folks are treating Hester Grimes _now_? She comes pretty near being the heroine of the Hill section.
gpt
Ya-as. They praise her because she done what she did for little Johnny Doyle. But many of 'em still think she set that foolish boy onto raiding the girls' gymnasium.
human
I don't know about that, confessed Chet, slowly.
gpt
Although we may believe that Rufe had something to do with it, perhaps he did it, after all, because he's not quite right in his head.
human
Oh, shucks! exclaimed Billson.
gpt
All because he was crying to be let out of the gym. the night of the first raid?
human
Well, Jackway admits he was there,
gpt
And Jackway is a good deal of a fool, too, snarled Billson.
human
Say! there's Rufe and his mother in the corridor now, going to see Johnny in the children's ward. You bring Rufe into this ward for a minute. I want to show you something.
gpt
Come here, Rufie, said Billson, beckoning to the gangling youth.
human
I want to show you somebody. Come here.