human
I fool him! he announced with grinning cuteness.
gpt
I move right away. You get my lease for the best price what that smart-Aleck Lofty offered me. And another word: Whenever you want a favor you come to me!
human
How much will you give me for the Ersten lease?
gpt
Have you really secured it?
human
I'm the winner,
gpt
If it's too much I'll build that tunnel,
human
Make me an offer.
gpt
A hundred and twenty-five thousand.
human
Nothing doing, stated Johnny with a smile.
gpt
There's no use fussing up our time though. I can tell you, to the cent, how much I must have. At four o'clock to-day I shall be nineteen hours behind my schedule, and I want a day for a fresh start, which makes it twenty-six. At five thousand an hour, that makes a hundred and thirty thousand dollars. I paid Ersten a hundred thousand. Grand total: two hundred and thirty thousand.
human
I don't understand your figures,
gpt
It's a private code, laughed the leaseholder,
human
I won't pay it,
gpt
Build your tunnel then, returned Johnny--but pleasantly, nevertheless.
human
Don't let's be nervous, Lofty. I might ask you a lot more, but that's the exact amount the system I'm playing calls for. I don't want any more and I won't take any less!
gpt
How did you get Ersten?
human
Heinrich Schnitt is fixing your coat!
gpt
Danke! she cried.
human
Did you get the lease?
gpt
Yes, and sold it to Lofty, he enthusiastically informed her.
human
The schedule is paid up until four o'clock to-morrow afternoon.
gpt
Oh! she gasped.
human
Wait a minute. He held the telephone while she consulted the score board and did some figuring.
gpt
That makes five hundred thousand of your million! Just half!
human
I'm coming around to see that diagram,
gpt
My dear, observed Mr. Courtney as he and his wife approached the jessamine summer-house,
human
My dear, retorted Mrs. Courtney very sweetly indeed and all unheeding of the laugh,
gpt
I pick them by a better system than you employ when you invite stag parties. You usually need to be introduced to your guests. Just whom would you like to have me send home?
human
Paul Gresham for one, replied Courtney bluntly,
gpt
I could be perfectly happy without them myself, Ben, sighed his wife,