human
As it happens, I can help you, said the lumber-man.
gpt
There are two or three fellows on our pay roll whom we haven't much work for at present, though we'll need them later. They're good bushmen, and I might raise one or two more by sending up to our logging camp.
human
Thanks, said Frobisher;
gpt
Never mind that. I feel that I ought to help Graham out: he's an old and valued servant. But I don't see how you are interested in the thing.
human
It's one's duty to help a fellow creature who's in serious danger. Then I believe I may call myself a friend of Allinson's.
gpt
There's a point to be considered. The most likely place to meet the party would be in the neighborhood of the food caches. You intimate that there's a risk of Allinson's missing them; but he must have a rough idea as to about where they are. As Mappin's out of town, wouldn't it be well to wire and ask him exactly where they were to be made?
human
On the whole, I'd rather get the information from Mrs. Graham. No doubt she knows her husband's plans.
gpt
Yes, he said pointedly,
human
There may have been some misunderstanding about the precise location of the caches, Frobisher explained.
gpt
Mrs. Graham will know where her husband meant them to be made--which of course is the most important thing.
human
Just so, agreed the other.
gpt
Excuse me for a few minutes.