human
Get off the road,
gpt
I've got some identification here, he said.
human
Mind if I get it out?
gpt
Go ahead, he said.
human
Don't try anything funny. It's been hell up and down this road, mister.
gpt
FBI? the Major said.
human
What're you doing out here?
gpt
Special assignment, Malone said.
human
Oh ... by the way ... you might send some men back a ways. There are four dead mean in military uniforms lying on the road near a couple of sawhorses.
gpt
Dead? he said at last.
human
Dead how?
gpt
I shot them,
human
You--
gpt
Now wait a minute, Malone said.
human
I said they were in military uniforms. I didn't say they were soldiers.
gpt
But--
human
Three enlisted men carrying M-1 rifles? Malone said.
gpt
When the M-1's out of date? And a captain with his bars on sideways? No, major. Those were renegades. Looters of some kind; they wanted to kill me and get the car and any valuables I happened to have.
human
You did the smart thing, Mr. Malone,
gpt
And I've got to go on doing it, Malone said.
human
I'm in a hurry.