human
You will please sign here, Mrs. Meilke, he said calmly, coming over to them with the sheet of paper laid smoothly upon a last-year's best-seller and with Charlie's fountain pen in his other hand.
gpt
And if Miss MacDonald will also sign, as an endorser, I think I can safely do away with any mortgage or other legal security.
human
I'd ruther give a mortgage, Marthy said uneasily, sitting up suddenly and looking from one to the other.
gpt
I don't want Billy Louise to git tangled up in my troubles. She's got plenty of her own. Her maw's just died, Mr. Seabeck. And I'll bet there was a hospital 'n' doctor's bill bigger 'n this cattle note, to be paid. I don't want to pile on--
human
Now, Marthy, you be still. I'm perfectly willing to sign this note with you. If it will satisfy Mr. Seabeck, I'm sure it's the very least we can do--or--expect.
gpt
Well, I'll want your written word that yuh won't prosycute Charlie nor help nobody else prosycute him, stipulated Marthy, with sudden shrewdness.
human
If me 'n Billy Louise signs this note, we'll pay it; and we want some pertection from you, fer Charlie.
gpt
Hmm-mm--I see! He turned and went back to the littered desk and wrote carefully again upon another sheet of paper.
human
I think this will be quite satisfactory,
gpt
Git my specs, Billy Louise--off 'n the shelf over there,