human
Well, said the Little Colonel, as they started homeward,
gpt
Your friend, the old Major, he said, in his broken English,
human
Where did he go? inquired Mr. Sherman.
gpt
I did not know that he intended leaving the hotel at all to-day. He did not seem well.
human
Early after lunch, was the answer.
gpt
He say he will up the mountain go, behind the town. He say that now he vair old man, maybe not again will he come this way, and one more time already before he die, he long to gather for himself the Alpine rosen.
human
Have you had a hard storm here?
gpt
The vair worst, madame. Many trees blow down. The lightning he strike a house next to the church of St. Oswald, and a goatherd coming down just now from the mountain say that the paths are heaped with fallen limbs, and slippery with mud. That is why for I fear the Major have one accident met.
human
Maybe he has stopped at some peasant's hut for shelter, suggested Mr. Sherman, seeing the distress in Lloyd's face.
gpt
He knows the region around here thoroughly. However, if he is not here by the time we are through dinner, we'll organise a searching party.
human
Hero knows that something is wrong, said the Little Colonel, as they went into the dining-room a few minutes later.
gpt
See how uneasy he seems, walking from room to room. He is trying to find his mastah.
human
You know, suggested Lloyd,
gpt
Oh, Papa Jack! Let's send Hero. I know where the Majah keeps his things, the flask and the bags, and the dog will know, as soon as they are fastened on him, that he must start on a hunt. And I believe I can say the words in French so that he'll undahstand. Only yestahday the Majah had me repeating them.
human
That's a bright idea, answered her father, who was really more anxious than he allowed any one to see.
gpt
At least it can do no harm to try.
human
I don't want any dessert. Mayn't I go now? Lloyd asked. As she hurried up the stairs, her heart beating with excitement, she whispered to herself,
gpt
Oh, if he _should_ happen to be lost or hurt, and Hero should find him, it would be the loveliest thing that evah happened.