human
Oh! he says at length in Tagalo.
gpt
Hadn't we better dig in some other place? This grave is too recent.
human
All the graves are the same, one is as recent as another.
gpt
I can't endure this!
human
What a woman! You should go and be a clerk! If you had dug up, as I did, a boy of twenty days, at night, in the rain----
gpt
Uh-h-h! And why did you do that?
human
Why? How do I know, I was ordered to.
gpt
Who ordered you?
human
Come! come! You're curious as a Spaniard. A Spaniard asked me the same question, but in secret. I'm going to say to you what I said to him: the curate ordered it.
gpt
Oh! and what did you do with the body?
human
The devil! if I didn't know you, I should take you for the police. The curate told me to bury it in the Chinese cemetery, but it's a long way there, and the body was heavy. 'Better be drowned,' I said to myself, 'than lie with the Chinese,' and I threw it into the lake.
gpt
No, no, stop digging!