human
My gracious! cried the merchant.
gpt
What does this mean?
human
Why, his hands are bound!
gpt
Great heavens! How came he to be in this state? cried Mr. Bacon.
human
Cut him loose as quick as you can. Jones, run down to my office and fetch a glass of the cognac you'll find on a shelf in the closet. This is certainly a most singular occurrence. Somebody bound the boy and shut him up in the closet. Nobody connected with the store would do such a thing as that. And yet how could a stranger have got up here unnoticed? A thief would not attempt to carry anything away before the clerks in the store. I don't understand it at all.