human
Look here, you fellows, said he,
gpt
You never told me that, snarled Pledge.
human
You've been fooling me.
gpt
You never asked me. Mr Richardson knew; he was in the shop just after I found it.
human
Of course he was,
gpt
He needn't have been, if that's what you mean. He'd nothing to do with it. Bless you, it's an old story now; I'd almost forgotten it.
human
You forgot, too, that you asked me to recover it for you; and you let me go on while all the time you had it.
gpt
You offered to get it back. I never asked you. You said you had an interest in the young gentlemen.
human
And you never thought it worth while to tell me the thing had turned up?
gpt
I told Mr Richardson, and said I was sorry for the fright he and his two friends had had. It never struck me you'd go on bothering about it, or I'd have told you. Fact of the matter is, I've never seen you from that day to this.
human
Is that all you want to say?
gpt
I can only say this, said Pledge:
human
I can tell you that!
gpt
You needn't wait, Mr Webster, said Mansfield.
human
Thank you for coming up.
gpt
Thank you, gentlemen,
human
I'm sorry to be mixed up in the matter. Mr Pledge can go somewhere else for his books. Good day, gentlemen.
gpt
Good day,