human
You've got to do it! said Rosalie Le Grange;
gpt
What reasons?
human
Now listen to the man! exclaimed Rosalie.
gpt
And ain't it man for you! Right off, first meeting, I told you enough to put me in jail and now you won't trust me!
human
I have cause to trust you, he said,
gpt
So anxious to be a gentleman that you forgit to be a man! remarked Rosalie with asperity.
human
Now you listen to me. I've told you that she's held two materializing seances for Robert H. Norcross, haven't I? I've told you it is crooked materialization--even if there was such a thing as real cabinet spooks, which there ain't--because I found the ceiling trap an' the apparatus long ago. And if Mrs. Markham is playin' fake materializing with old Norcross as a dope, what does it come to? Obtainin' money, an' big money, under false pretenses! That's enough to put her behind the bars. So what risk do you take even if you _are_ caught? She'll be more anxious than you to keep it away from the papers and the police. And Norcross! He'll break his collar-bone to shut it up!
gpt
But it's a sneaking trick--Annette would call it that.
human
Yes, an' ain't it a sneakin' trick to hire a housekeeper to be a spy? Rosalie hurled back.
gpt
Seems to me you draw a fine line between doin' your own dirty work an' havin' it done!
human
I suppose you're right, he said.
gpt
A good officer never sends a man where he wouldn't go himself. I'm rather sorry I started now.
human
And you'll be sorrier before this night's over, boy.
gpt
I knew you'd see it that way. Now listen and git this carefully: You're to wear a big ulster and old hat and soft-soled shoes--don't forget that. You're to come to the back door at a quarter to nine--exactly. Us servants receive our callers at the back door. Norcross will be in the parlor at half past, Annette will be in her room, the other help will be out, Ellen and all. Mrs. Markham takes no chances--not even with that fool girl--when she's got Norcross. She's given Ellen theater tickets. That's how careful she is about little things. You can see how clear the coast will be. I'm goin' to bring you straight to my room like a visitor. You walk soft!
human
But how about that electric bell?
gpt
I disconnected it this morning at the trap with my manicure scissors an' a hairpin,