human
Jenky, old boy!
gpt
Bromley, old fel!
human
Let my children retire while I speak to the agent of our Great Father in Washington. Hereafter no latch keys will be provided for the wigwams of the warriors. The practice of late hours must be discouraged.
gpt
How!
human
Whisper, said Jenkins, drawing his friend aside;
gpt
I am known here only as the Boy Chief of the 'Pigeon toes.'
human
And I, said Bromley Chitterlings, proudly,
gpt
But how came you here?
human
Listen! My pirate brig, the 'Lively Mermaid,' now lies at Meiggs's Wharf in San Francisco, disguised as a Mendocino lumber vessel. My pirate crew accompanied me here in a palace car from San Francisco.
gpt
It must have been expensive,
human
It was, but they defrayed it by a collection from the other passengers--you understand, an enforced collection. The papers will be full of it to-morrow. Do you take the 'New York Sun'?
gpt
No; I dislike their Indian policy. But why are you here?
human
Hear me, Jenk! 'Tis a long and a sad story. The lovely Eliza J. Sniffen, who fled with me from Doemville, was seized by her parents and torn from my arms at New Rochelle. Reduced to poverty by the breaking of the savings bank of which he was president,--a failure to which I largely contributed, and the profits of which I enjoyed,--I have since ascertained that Eliza Jane Sniffen was forced to become a schoolmistress, departed to take charge of a seminary in Colorado, and since then has never been heard from.
gpt
Eliza J. Sniffen, gasped Jenkins,
human
The same.
gpt
Heaven help me! She died by my mandate!
human
Traitor!