human
Say you so, my young friend? he exclaimed.
gpt
Well, if we leave any part of the old ruin intact when we're through with this series of startling pictures the old lady can doubtless buy it at a small figure.
human
Does that mean you'll wreck a big structure like this, sir, just to get a picture of it being blown up?
gpt
Oh, that doesn't cut any figure in the bill! he was told flippantly.
human
The public demands the best there is, and money must flow like water in order to keep up with our rivals. We're going to give them something novel this time, you see.
gpt
How, sir?
human
This new play isn't really a play at all, said the stout man, with a touch of pride in his voice.
gpt
It's a stunt of my own we're pulling off to-day. You see, the public sometimes expresses a desire to learn just how these magnificent pictures are done, and we expect to show them the whole thing from beginning to end. They'll see my company starting out in a string of motor cars for this place; watch them getting rigged out in their spic-and-span suits of mail, and old-time stuff; feast their eyes on just such wonderful feats as you have seen pulled off beside these massive walls; and step by step, be taken into our confidence as we progress, until finally the amazing climax arrives. Right now you can hear the machine clicking away, as the operator takes a crack at the players resting between their acts. Perhaps it may please you chaps to know that you'll be seen in the finished production along with the rest of the troupe.