human
Father, he said, after he had inquired how the sick man felt,
gpt
I have learned all.
human
What do you mean?
gpt
I mean that I know who and WHAT your enemy is--your enemy who is trying to avenge that which happened over twenty years ago!
human
Who has told you? asked the Squire excitedly--
gpt
No, someone who says he died years ago!
human
What do you mean?
gpt
I hardly know myself. Next door--I mean at the Dene--lives an old man who says he knew you more than twenty years ago.
human
Don't believe it, Laurence. But-t-t how does he know my secret? You are sure that he--he is not the--the----
gpt
No, he is not the Thug.
human
And you've not caught him?
gpt
No, but I know where he is hiding, and, he added,
human
I cannot tell you. Yet, if I don't he will. Here, go to the desk in my sanctum, press the knob of the dummy drawer on the right-hand side, and bring me down the book that will fall out of the slit underneath.