human
Getting kind of thin on top, Tom--eh? Doc, he's leaning a little hard on his cane. Joe Calvin, he's getting rheumatic, and you're getting thin-haired. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
gpt
So you believe the Lord runs things here in Harvey, do you, Cap?
human
Well--I suppose if you come right down to it, answered the Captain,
gpt
Why, scoffed the Judge,
human
What good does any religion do? I've broken the ten commandments, every one of them--and I get on. No one bothers me, because I keep inside the general statutes. I've beat God at his own game. I tell you, Cap, you can do what you please just so you obey the state and federal laws and pay your debts. This God-myth amuses me.
gpt
I hear, well, to be exact, George Brotherton was telling me and the girls the other night that the Company is secretly dropping out the members of the unions that Grant Adams has been organizing down in South Harvey.
human
Yes--that Adams is another one of your canting, God-and-morality fellows. Always watch that kind. I tell you, Captain, barked the Judge,