human
Pedro! Holt gasped and staggered a little dizzily to his feet.
gpt
He struck me down from behind, and tied and gagged me, as you found me. Where is Pedro? and he looked excitedly and a bit wildly around.
human
Ah, now I remember, and his face cleared.
gpt
He has gone for the rest of the gang. I overheard him and another man, after I had recovered my senses and lay tightly bound up in the blanket, planning how he would go and get the rest of the gang, while the other man climbed the tree and kept guard over the narrow opening. Their plan was to capture the camp and hold the Big Tree, so that none of you could get out of Crooked Arm Gulch, and then starve you into surrendering everything; and they came mighty nigh doing it, and he glanced anxiously down the canyon.
human
They'll be due in about half an hour, I judge from what I overheard. They were not calculating on any of you getting back so soon,
gpt
But that other man? Where is that other man?