human
I cannot pay you just now; don't speak to me here, we shall be seen,
gpt
What do I care for that? replied Josiah.
human
If you don't come to me I'll come to you.
gpt
I will come to the yard to-morrow afternoon, only do go away now,
human
You had better,
gpt
Well, gents, have you got the money? asked Josiah Slam, who admitted them.
human
I hope so, for I wants to be off, and I'm only a-waiting for that.
gpt
No, replied Saurin,
human
What's that to do with it? cried young Slam.
gpt
You had as good a chance of winning of me, hadn't yer?
human
No, of course not, replied Saurin.
gpt
I am not certain that we had any chance at all.
human
What d'yer mean? yer--
gpt
Oh, don't bluster and try to bully, said Saurin.
human
I'm not afraid of you.
gpt
Oh, you're not, ain't yer, my game chicken? but I have got your I O U.
human
Much good may it do you! Why, we are under age, and it's of no value at all.
gpt
And you call yerself a gentleman! Yah! But I'm not so green as yer think, my boy. Of course I knowed it warn't a legal dokiment. But it's proof enough for me. If you don't pay I shall take it to yer master, and see if he won't pay it for yer.
human
Don't be a fool; you know very well he would not.
gpt
No, I don't; at any rate I shall try it on.
human
It would do you no good, I tell you.
gpt
If not, it would do you two chaps harm, I know; why, you would get it pretty hot if yer master knowed yer had come here at all; and if he found you'd been playing cards on a Sunday, and roulette, and pawning yer watches and things, I'll bet a hundred it wouldn't make it better. Gents like you can allus get money somehow; write to yer friends; it's only two pun ten apiece, and they won't stick at that to get you out of such a shindy as this will be. This here's Thursday and I'm bound to go on Monday. If you don't bring them five pounds by then, I'll go to your master with that 'ere I O U in my hand on Monday morning as sure as I stand here. So now you know.