human
There's a very cozy and retired seat in the summer-house, she informed him.
gpt
I wish to have a tete-a-tete with you on a most important business matter.
human
You may have a tete-a-tete with me on any subject whatsoever, laughed Loring.
gpt
I suppose it's about those Johnny Gamble attachments, however.
human
It's about that exactly, she acknowledged.
gpt
What have you learned of the one for fifty thousand dollars which was attempted to be laid against Mr. Gamble's interest in that hotel property yesterday?
human
Very little, he confessed.
gpt
It is of the same sort as the one we discussed the other day.
human
Fraudulent, probably,
gpt
I think so myself, agreed Loring.
human
Trouble is, nobody can locate the Gamble-Collaton books.
gpt
Perhaps they have been destroyed,
human
I doubt it, returned Loring.
gpt
It would seem the sensible thing to do; but, through some curious psychology which I can not fathom, crooks seldom make away with documentary evidence.
human
Who is helping Mr. Collaton?
gpt
I do not know,
human
Some one of our mutual acquaintance, she persisted shrewdly.
gpt
Twice, now, attachments have been served on Mr. Gamble when the news of his having attachable property could only have come from our set.