human
Mrs. Van Dorn, I'm going to do something you won't like. To Laura's questioning eyes Violet answered:
gpt
I know your ma, or some one else has told you all about me--but,
human
But no matter what they say--I'm going to the Judge; he's got to make the railroad company pay and pay well. It's all I've got on earth--for the children. We have three dollars in my pocketbook and will have to wait until the fifteenth before I get his last month's wages, and I know they'll dock him up to the very minute of the day--that day! I wouldn't do it for anything else on earth, Mrs. Van Dorn--wild horses couldn't drag me there--but I'm going to the Judge--for the children. He can help.
gpt
Yes, Violet--I read it in the _Times_. But what can I do--you know I'm not allowed to take a case and, besides, he was working for the railroad, and you know, Violet, he assumed the risk. What do they offer you?
human
Judge--for God's sake don't talk that way to me. That's the way you used to talk to those miners' wives--ugh! she cried.
gpt
I remember it all--that assumed risk. Only this--he was working ten hours a day on a job that wouldn't let him sleep, and he oughtn't to be working but eight hours, if they hadn't sneaked under the law. They've offered me five hundred, Judge--five hundred--for a man, five hundred for our three children--and me. You can make them do better--oh, I know you can. Oh, please for the sake--oh!