human
Looks like business, sir!
gpt
Business, yes.
human
Bad business for us, eh?
gpt
It might be, if we had only the usual means of defense. Under ordinary circumstances, our only game would be to turn tail and run for it, or cut away far to the south--or else break out a white flag and surrender. But--
human
That must be the Azores air-fleet, judged Bohannan.
gpt
The others couldn't have made so much westing, in this time. Faith, what a buzzing swarm of mosquitoes! I had no idea there were that many planes on the Azores International Air Board station!
human
There are many things you have no idea of, Major, replied the Master, sharply.
gpt
That, however, is immaterial. Yes, here come the fringes of attack, all right enough. I estimate forty or fifty in sight, already; and there must be a few hundred back of those, between here and land, north and south. Technically, we're pirates, you know.
human
Pirates?
gpt
Yes, he answered.
human
That's what the wireless tells us. We'll get short shrift if--my apparatus fails.
gpt
How do they make us out pirates?