human
They're beginnin' to find out that I'm no slouch of a detective after all, hey?
gpt
I ain't certain you'd have seen so many of 'em, Sam, if it hadn't been that they was all in a bunch listenin' to the news 'bout Seth Bartlett, an' after hearin' it was in good trim for anythin'.
human
What's the news 'bout Seth?
gpt
Why, he's goin' into the Department.
human
Who? Seth Bartlett?
gpt
Yep. That is, it's jest 'bout the same thing. Ninety-four's men have found him a job up to headquarters where he'll have a chance to learn the business, 'cause there's what you might call a school for firemen up there.
human
I don't b'lieve a word of it; that's one of Seth Bartlett's yarns!
gpt
He ain't the kind of feller that goes 'round lyin', an' it would be a chump trick for him to begin it now, 'cause if he don't flash up in that uniform by to-morrow night we'll know he's been stuffin' us.
human
Well, maybe there's _somethin'_ in it, Sam replied grudgingly, after a brief hesitation;
gpt
I don't know why he wouldn't make as good a fireman as you will a detective. He's been runnin' with Ninety-four for more'n a year.
human
What does that 'mount to? He's never done anythin' same's I have, to show that he had the stuff in him.
gpt
They say he come pretty nigh savin' 'Lish Davis's life the other night when them storage warehouses burned.
human
Oh, that's all in your eye. Dan Roberts told the yarn so's to make hisself solid with Seth.