human
Let us sit down here and have a little talk. I wonder if you know, my dear girl, what a wonderful man your father is.
gpt
His work for us is not done, either! And I am going to ask you to help me, Miss Keineth. I want him in my official family--I need his judgment and advice--need it badly! If he tries to refuse me then you must make him do what I want him to do! Wouldn't you like to live in Washington?
human
Oh--yes! cried Keineth, then she stopped short.
gpt
But--it wouldn't have to be a secret, would it?
human
No, indeed, my dear! Then, more seriously,
gpt
You were very brave to help us guard so carefully his journeying. It was necessary that it should be kept a secret because in every land where he went there were bitter enemies to the work he was trying to do--enemies who, if they had had one word of the mission upon which he was going about, would have done everything within their power to defeat its purpose, even to taking his life without one moment's hesitation! Keineth, this is a funny world. It is made up of big nations and small nations and they struggle against one another like so many bad, heedless boys fighting in an alley.
human
I know! cried Keineth, bright-eyed.
gpt
When they ought to be living like nice families in a quiet street, each one keeping its own yard clean from rubbish and the doorsteps washed.
human
The child has described it, exactly! What an ideal! Do you think we'll ever reach it? Then, to Keineth,
gpt
And that is the mission that took your father abroad--to lay before the peoples of those other lands this plan of democracy; to show them the picture of how we all--as nations--might live as you have described it, like thrifty families on a clean-kept street, some in finer houses than others, perhaps, but each one with its door-step clean and its corners well cleared out. Well--well, in your lifetime you may come to it, child. And when you do--remember that the way was opened by the message your father carried!