human
Carroll's sick, said Lee, with a curious effect of partisanship towards himself, as well as Carroll.
gpt
He's sick, and it is too bad. His nerves are a wreck.
human
Well, our nerves are becoming wrecks,
gpt
That's so, said the druggist, with a worried look.
human
I don't know but I'll have to mortgage my stock. I've lost more than I can afford in that United Fuel.
gpt
I don't like to own up I've been bit, said the postmaster,
human
He'll pay up every cent,
gpt
Maybe he will pay his debts, said the postmaster.
human
I am not going to say he won't. I suppose he means to. But when it comes to making things good, when he has simply led you by the nose into disastrous speculations, I don't know. Bigger men than Arthur Carroll don't do it.
gpt
That's so, said Drew.
human
It's one thing to pay your butcher's bill in the long run, and be above stealing goods off the counter, but a man can cheat his fellow-men in a stock trade and think pretty well of himself, and other folks think well of him.
gpt
That's so,
human
I haven't any doubt that he will arrange that, said Lee.
gpt
And, for that matter, the United Fuel may look up yet. I had a prospectus--
human
Prospectus be damned!
gpt
Well, it won't come up to-night, and I've left my little boy alone in the store, said he.
human
I've got to be going.
gpt
So have I, said the postmaster.
human
My wife is alone.
gpt
My wife always stands up for Carroll, said Lee, trotting nervously after the other men as they left the room.
human
Says she guesses he will end up by paying his bills as well as other men that are blaming him.
gpt
Hope to God he will,