human
Look here, he began awkwardly,
gpt
I'm not such a hard man as all that. I don't want your watch. Tell me why you are all bent on getting to Belden by three o'clock.
human
You're a plucky lot, commented the farmer when the boy had finished.
gpt
And I should be glad to take you, for nothing, because I counted on driving to Belden myself this afternoon. But I can't go, and I can't take you, because--
human
Busted! repeated Specs dolefully.
gpt
I knew it all the time. Everybody and everything is busted!
human
No, not everybody, he said, striving hard to be cheerful.
gpt
There's the peddler, you know; he isn't busted any more--quite!
human
What peddler?