human
I didn't think I'd have to ask a favor of you again, Brouillard, but needs must when the devil drives, he began, with an attempted assumption of the former manner.
gpt
We didn't know--the newspapers didn't tell us anything about this frightful state of affairs, and----
human
Sit down, Mr. Cortwright, he said.
gpt
I was just coming over to see you--to congratulate you and Mr. Schermerhorn on your return to Mirapolis. We have certainly missed the mayor, not to mention the president of the common council.
human
Of course--yes, was the hurried rejoinder.
gpt
But that's all over. You said you'd get us, and you did. I don't bear malice. If you had given me one more day I'd have got you; the stuff that would have broken your neck with the Washington people was all written and ready to put on the wires. But that's past and gone, and the next thing is something else. There is a lot of money and securities locked up in the Niquoia Bank vault. We've come to clean up, and we brought a few peace officers along from Red Butte for a guard. The miserable scoundrels are scared stiff; they won't stir out of the hotel. Bongras tells me you've got your force organized and armed--can't you lend us fifty or a hundred huskies to keep the mob off while we open that bank vault?