human
This is a gol-darn outrage! fumed the Vermonter, speaking to Merry.
gpt
Whut be yeou goin' to do abaout it?
human
I shall have to do the best I can,
gpt
But yeou won't be able to start for Puelbo with the rest of the people.
human
It doesn't look that way now.
gpt
That's tough!
human
It is decidedly unfortunate, but I hope to get off in time to join the company before the first performance to-morrow night.
gpt
Haow did it happen?
human
I hardly know. The woman stopped me and insisted that I should go somewhere to talk with her. I explained that my time was limited, but that seemed to make no impression on her. When I tried to get away she flung her arms around me and screamed. That brought a crowd together, and then she declared I had assaulted her.
gpt
Larf! grated Gallup, under his breath.
human
Yeou think yeou know so gol-darned much that----
gpt
Hush! warned Frank.
human
I do not wish you to get into trouble. You must inform the others what has happened to me.
gpt
It's purty gol-darn hard to keep still, declared Ephraim.
human
I never see sich a set of natteral born fools in all my life! How many of the craowd saw what happened 'tween yeou an' the woman?
gpt
No one, I think.
human
An' I'll bet a squash they'll all go up an' swear to any kind of a story she'll tell. Who is she?
gpt
I don't know.
human
That's queer. Wut was her little game?
gpt
Don't know that.
human
By gum! it's some kind of a put-up job!
gpt
I have a fancy there is something more than appears on the surface. It is an attempt to make trouble for me.
human
That's right.
gpt
I hope to see the woman's face at the police station.
human
Yeou won't!
gpt
Why not?
human
She won't show it.
gpt
Perhaps the judge will request her to lift her veil.
human
Not by a gol-darned sight! Men are too big fools over women. They'll take any old thing she'll say abaout yeou, an' lock yeou up fer it. She'll give some kind of name and address, an' they'll let her go at that.
gpt
Well, unless I can get bail right away I shall be in a bad fix. If Kent Carson were in town he would pull me out of it, as he did before.
human
Ha! he exclaimed.
gpt
Then you have been arrested in Denver before? This is a second offense! I rather think you'll not get off as easy as you did the first time.
human
Oh, yeou are enough to----
gpt
Ephraim!
human
I have been here before, said Merry, quietly.
gpt
This is the station to which I was taken when Leslie Lawrence made his false charge against me.