human
What do you think? Billson asked Chet Belding, when the boy visited him and Hebe Pocock again--but this was out of Hebe's hearing.
gpt
What do you think--that a girl like this would hire a foolish boy to do such dirty work? If Miss Grimes had wanted to bust up that gymnasium, you bet she'd have had the pluck to go and do it herself! That's my opinion.
human
Well, Rufe was there,
gpt
Where?
human
In the gym. The first night the things were disturbed. Bill Jackway admits that. They've got time-clocks for him and he goes all over the building several times a night, now; and they have let him hire another man to help him on the field during the day. But he says that he let Rufe out at midnight because the boy was scared and wanted to go home. And the second time, Rufe could have slipped in when Bill had the door ajar, and afterward got out of the window and walked backward to the field fence. Oh, he could have done it.
gpt
But why mix Hester Grimes up with it?
human
Rufe would never have thought of the thing himself, I don't believe. And Hester threatened to 'fix' all the girls, and said she hated them, and the gym., and the whole thing.
gpt
Guess she was mad,
human
Quite likely. She sure wasn't _glad_,
gpt
And I suppose you think, said Mr. Billson, scowling,
human
No I never said such a thing,
gpt
Then what? If folks have really got anything against Miss Hester, why don't they come out square and say so? This hinting at things--going 'all 'round Robin Hood's barn'--gets my goat--it does so!
human
I guess the girls of Central High feel a whole lot differently toward Hester than they did, admitted Chet.
gpt
At least, they talk differently.