human
I fear I have intrude. Have I the honor to address Lieutenant Waring? I am Philippe Lascelles.
gpt
I am most glad to meet you,--to know that it was not you who drove down with us that night.
human
Alas, no! I left Armand but that very morning, returning to Havana, thence going to Santiago. It was not until five days ago the news reached me. It is of that stranger I come to ask.
gpt
The lawyer, said Philippe,
human
What he had also urged, and he spoke with reluctance here, and owned it only because the detectives told him it was now well known, was that Armand had of late been playing the _rôle_ of _galant homme_, and that the woman in the case had fled. Of all this he felt, he said, bound to speak fully, because in coming here with his witnesses to meet Lieutenant Waring and his friends he had two objects in view. The first was to admit that he had accepted as fact the published reports that Lieutenant Waring was probably his brother's slayer; had hastened back to New Orleans to demand justice or obtain revenge; had here learned from the lawyers and police that there were now other and much more probable theories, having heard only one of which he had cried
gpt
Enough,