human
So much for your rough diamond! said Eves.
gpt
Noakes evidently didn’t know before to-day that you were here, and when I saw him confabbing with Wilkins he was no doubt asking all about you. Wilkins must have told him about your inventions, and he thought a visit to your drawer would give him an idea or two, and enable him to get in first with a patent.
human
But you don’t suppose Wilkins was in the plot?
gpt
I don’t know about that, but he’s clearly under Noakes’s thumb. Some one said that you know a man by the company he keeps. Wilkins keeps uncommonly bad company.
human
I’m disappointed in him, I confess, said Templeton.
gpt
To-morrow I’ll give him a week’s notice, and work on my own for the rest of my leave.