human
I am afraid you are right, he said thoughtfully.
gpt
We've had a good many applications from men hunting work in the past two days, more than would be accounted for by the usual drift from the railroad camps.
human
You saw President Ford after I did; what did he say when he was over here?
gpt
He said very little to me, replied Brouillard guardedly.
human
From that little I gathered that the members of his executive committee were not unanimously in favor of building the Extension.
gpt
Well, we are up against it, that's all. Read that,
human
Ackerman,
gpt
Work on P. S-W.'s Buckskin Extension has been suspended for the present. Reason assigned, shrinkage in securities and uncertainty of business outlook in Niquoia.
human
What a bunch of blanked fools! he broke out.
gpt
They've spent a clean million as it stands, and they are figuring to leave it tied up and idle!
human
I'm not losing any sleep over the P. S-W. treasury. It's our own basket of eggs here that I'm worrying about. Let it once get out that the railroad people don't believe in the future of Mirapolis and we're done.
gpt
Mirapolis has no future; it has only an exceedingly precarious present.