human
I reckon you'd better stay where you are, boys. We can talk this way just as well as any other. The others halted and he went on:
gpt
Suppose you say, right now, whether you want anything particular.
human
We thought you must be having trouble with your cattle. Stampede on you?
gpt
They're all right now. They're 'milling,' and won't give me any more trouble. But I reckon you didn't ride up here to ask me if my cattle had stampeded. You better talk straight just what you do want.
human
They expected I'd begin poppin' at 'em and give 'em an excuse to open out on me all at once,
gpt
Jim, you out here to buy some cattle? Can I sell you some of mine?
human
You know I don't want to buy cattle,
gpt
No? Then maybe you've come to ask me if it's goin' to rain?
human
I reckon you know what I want, Emerson Mead, Halliday said angrily, as if nettled by Mead's assured, good-natured tone and manner.
gpt
You know you're a fugitive from justice, and that it's my duty to take you back to jail.
human
Oh, then you want me!
gpt
That's what, old man!