human
What do you want me to do?
gpt
Ah, if I knew!
human
We have the body safe, he said,
gpt
I will not have it! she cried.
human
That is stupid!
gpt
But--but you said you wanted him brought to justice,
human
Would you expect me to go on the witness stand and swear his life away--with mamma listening there? Here in a strange country!
gpt
But you said--you were an American.
human
So I am--in spirit. But I have lived all my life in Managuay. Give me time.
gpt
But we cannot let him go free. That would be making ourselves accessory to the crime.
human
I shall not let him go free. I am thinking how to punish him. I shall punish him in a way that even you will admit is sufficient.
gpt
Oh, I shall not kill him myself, she said.
human
I suspect I am too much American for that.
gpt
I have a feeling that the murder of my uncle is only the first act in a whole drama of crime that Francisco is planning. We must prevent it! If I only knew what was in that little book! You have had no answer to your cable to Estuban?
human
Even if he comes it would be a week before he could get here. Francisco will not wait a week.
gpt
That will be Pa Simmons, said Greg.
human
Back in a jiffy.
gpt
This you, Greg? This is me. Do you get me? Well, I picked up that party all right at the address given, and I stuck to him closer than a brother all afternoon and evening. I'll give you a full report when I come in. I just called up now to say that at eleven-thirty I followed him to the Stickney Arms, and he's there yet. Looks to me like he was going to stay all night. If you want the place watched any longer you'll have to send up one of the boys to relieve me, because I'm all in. I gotta have my sleep.
human
All right, Pa, said Greg.
gpt
Come on home.