human
I don't like it, pard, and you can bet your moccasins on that,
gpt
There are a whole lot of things about this business I don't fancy, returned Motor Matt;
human
But the girl! What's her notion about it? Hanging to a trapeze under the aëroplane isn't a stunt to be sneezed at.
gpt
She's anxious to do the trick. She'll get fifty dollars a week for it, and the money looks good to her.
human
There's the danger, pard. Her neck's worth more than fifty plunks a week.
gpt
She's a little brick, that Haidee--pure grit. I'll see that she's not placed in much danger.
human
You'll have your hands full looking after yourself and the aëroplane. Sufferin' whirligigs! You know how hard it is to manage the _Comet_ when there's a weight suspended beneath.
gpt
I can do it,
human
Of course you can do, old socks--you can do anything when you set your mind to it. But, tell me this, what has that old elephant driver, Ben Ali, got to do with Haidee? Ben Ali's a Hindoo, and Haidee is almost as white as an American girl.
gpt
Ben Ali's her uncle, Joe. Haidee's mother was Ben Ali's sister, and Haidee's father was an English officer living in Bombay. The girl told me all this yesterday at the time she begged me to do what Boss Burton wanted and let her trail the _Comet_ aloft on the trapeze.
human
Funny combination,