human
H'are yeh?
gpt
By God, you have a cheek!
human
What have you done with--you know--It?
gpt
It's disposed of,
human
And a good job too! said Hickey with undisguised relief.
gpt
I knew you had a head on you,
human
Oh you did, did you? You and I have got a long account to settle, old fellow!
gpt
Aw, be nice, said Hickey cajolingly.
human
What have you got to grouse about? You've got the flivver, haven't you? I've got nothing.
gpt
Where's the two hundred you got from me?
human
Gone! Just like that! I'm cleaned out.
gpt
Booze?
human
No. Craps.
gpt
Oh, I know I'm a fool, said Hickey with a kind of cheerful despair.
human
You don't have to tell me. Every man has his own special kind of dam foolishness. Mine's the little bone cubes. He snapped his fingers.
gpt
Come you little lubly seben!
human
You've got a nerve to show yourself around here.
gpt
Only place I had to come to, said Hickey simply.
human
Besides somepin told me you wouldn't be hard on a poor mutt like me, --this with his inimitable insinuating grin.
gpt
Let me sleep awhile in the flivver, will yeh? I'm all in.
human
If you want to square yourself with me you've got to tell me the truth about how you came by that body,
gpt
You didn't think _I_ croaked the guy, did you?
human
No. But I want to know all the circumstances. A lot has happened since you unloaded it on me.