human
More bedlam, he announced.
gpt
I want Gassman or Handley and twenty or thirty good men. The mob has gone from wrecking and burning to murdering. 'Pegleg' John was beaten to death in front of his saloon a few minutes ago. It is working this way. There were three fires in the plaza as I came through.
human
See Grislow at the commissary and tell him I sent you, said the chief.
gpt
I'd go with you, but I'm due at the Metropole.
human
Good. Then Miss Amy got word to you? I was just about to deliver her message.
gpt
Miss Massingale? Where is she, and what was the message?
human
Then you haven't heard? The 'Little Susan' is in the hands of a sheriff's posse, and David Massingale is under arrest on some trumped-up charge--selling ore for his individual account, or something of that sort. Miss Amy didn't go into particulars, but she told me that she had heard the sheriff say it was a penitentiary offence.
gpt
But where is she now?
human
Over at the hotel. I supposed you knew; you said you were going there.