human
I don't know, Dalton, Anthony began evenly,
gpt
Humph!
human
Cutting in so heavily that whatever efforts I have been able to put forth have been of no avail whatever, Anthony pursued.
gpt
Last week--all day last Saturday, in fact--I went over the year's business and it fairly maddened me to see the falling off. I spent Sunday thinking and I am frank to say, Dalton, that by Sunday night I was all but ready to murder you. Toward midnight I conceived what seemed to be a means of forcing you into some sort of mutual contract, by which each of us could do business with the assurance that the other wasn't coming over to take away what didn't belong to him.
human
It was a wild notion, Anthony sighed.
gpt
I knew that talking was useless, I knew that fighting you openly was equally useless, because once I became too conspicuous I knew that you'd sail in and wreck me. At the same time something had to be done and that in mighty short order, or Fry's Imperial was likely to die a natural death. Therefore, Dalton, I perfected the scheme of kidnaping your daughter and holding her until you'd come to terms.
human
Great----