human
Well, ole scout, ain't yeou thinkin' 'baout lettin' me into the game--I somehaow take it fur granted there's news come 'long that's agoin' to start us off agin follerin' the air trails on the heels o' some skunks what got themselves outside the law. Lay off, partner, an' gimme a run fur my money, won't yeou?
gpt
I certainly must ask your pardon, old chap, he hastened to say;
human
Sure thing, Jack; then I kinder guess the letter must be from Headquarters?
gpt
No other, Perk.
human
What's in the wind this time?
gpt
That's a fair question, and I'll try to answer you, said Jack.
human
It isn't the mere fact that we're ordered to duty once more, that I was thinking about just now, because such a thing comes along every once in so often in the exercise of our duties--but strangely enough our meeting up to-day with the family of a man we'd help put in jail doesn't seem to bring our queer list of coincidences to a halt.
gpt
Hot-diggetty-dig! naow yeou got me a guessin' good an' hard, partner--go to it, an' explain what yeou mean.
human
Well, it looks as if a wish you expressed only a short time ago was going to be fulfilled,
gpt
Haow come, buddy?
human
We were talking about a certain scoundrel who's name we've seen so often of late in the papers--remember, Perk?