human
You are going to stay here, Cassy, he said,
gpt
He turned to his father.
human
You thought a lot of George, he added.
gpt
He was the apple of your eye. He had a soft tongue, and most people liked him; but George was foolish--I've known it all these years. George was pretty foolish. He gambled, he bet at races, he speculated--wild. You didn't know it. He took ten thousand dollars of your money, got from the Wonegosh farm he sold for you. He--
human
No, I'm going to tell it. George lost your ten thousand dollars, dad, gambling, racing, speculating. He told her--Cassy--two days after they was married, and she took the money she earned on the stage and give it to him to pay you back on the quiet through the bank. You never knew, but that's the kind of boy your son George was, and that's the kind of wife he had. George told me all about it when I went East six years ago.
gpt
I'm standing by George's wife, he said, taking her hand, while she shut her eyes in her misery--had she not hid her husband's wrong-doing all these years?--
human
I'm standing by her. If it hadn't been for that ten thousand dollars she paid back for George, you'd have been swamped, when the Syndicate got after you, and we wouldn't have had Lumley's place, nor this, nor anything. I guess she's got rights here, dad, as good as any.
gpt
George--George stole from me--stole money from me!