human
What are you going to do?
gpt
Locate him as soon as he leaves his New Orleans office, then a safe expert, employed by the government in alien-enemy work, will open his safe for evidence, and possibly will find the stolen seals, stamps, and ink of the Department of Animal Industry.
human
I have figured the case in just that way and supposed you had, and that is why we must get inside his plant. Opening his safe may help--finding the seals don't prove the larceny--suppose they should secrete those seals about the wharf, or worse still, put them inside, or under my desk, in the wharf office, what chance would I have to escape the implication?
gpt
A dog having the bone will not prove he stole the ham,
human
But that won't save the dog's ribs when he's found with it,
gpt
It is true, Hiram, their organization must begin in Kansas City--and is pretty well oiled--but perhaps not as efficient as you imagine; crooks always forget something with a certainty that suggests fatality.
human
Let us hope so. But these notes--what makes you think they are from a woman? He stopped and looked squarely at me.
gpt
I don't like it,
human
My reason just now is scarcely more than an impression, hardly more than 'because,'