human
You say you're goin' down to the Buckskin right away? How 'm I goin' to secure you for this?
gpt
We can talk about that later on, after I come back. The thing to do now is to get those notes cancelled and that stock released before bank-closing time.
human
There's one other thing--and I've got to spit it out before it's everlastedly too late. See here, Victor Brouillard--Amy likes you--thinks a heap of you; a plumb blind man could see that. But say, that little girl o' mine has just natchurly _got_ to have a free hand when it comes to pairin' up, and she won't never have if she finds out about this. You ain't allowin' to use it on her, Victor?
gpt
I'll make a hedging bet and break even with you, Mr. Massingale, he said.
human
That check is drawn to my order, and I have indorsed it. Let me have it again and I'll get the cash for you. In that way only the two of us need know anything about the transaction; and if I promise to keep the secret from Miss Amy, you must promise to keep it from Mr. J. Wesley Cortwright. Will you saw it off with me that way?--until you've made the turn on the ore sales?
gpt
Dad burn you, Victor Brouillard, you're a man--ever' single mill-run of you!
human
No, Mr. Massingale, I'm the little yellow dog you mentioned a while back,