human
God help him--oh, God help him!
gpt
I will sleep now,
human
What can I do, Dan? I'm broke, too. My last dollar went to pay my last debt to-day. I've nothing but what I stand in. I've got prospects, but I can't discount prospects at the banks. The speaker laughed bitterly.
gpt
I've reaped and I'm sowing, the same as you, Dan.
human
No; not the same as me, Flood--not the same. It's sink or swim with me, and if you can't help me--oh, I'd take my gruel without whining, if it wasn't for Di! It's that that knocks me over. It's the shame to her. Oh, what a cursed ass and fool--and thief, I've been!
gpt
Thief?--thief?