human
Do you know, Harry, he said, one day,
gpt
Mr. Butler does not know anything about it, for the Crusades were wars between people who went out to the Holy Land to recover the Holy Sepulchre from the Turks who held it.
human
Ah, well, Evan said,
gpt
Does I understand you to say, Evan, that no other family but that of the master's put this three-fingered hand with a knife on to their things?
human
That's so, mother; leastways it's what the butler says about it.
gpt
Then if that's the case, Mrs. Holl said thoughtfully,
human
I suppose so, mother; he might be a long distance off, you know, because this ere affair took place hundreds of years ago, and there may be a lot of the same family about in different parts.
gpt
So there might,
human
Why, mother, Harry said,
gpt
It don't make no difference to me, Harry, Mrs. Holl said,
human
That was curious, mother, Harry said,
gpt
It looks like a hand holding a dagger, he said,
human
Well, from that, Harry, Mrs. Holl said,
gpt
A cousin, fifty times removed, perhaps, Harry laughed,
human
You knew that before, Harry, Mrs. Holl said severely,
gpt
I should think not, Harry laughed.
human
How the old gent would stare if Evan was to walk up to him and say, 'Captain Bayley, I have got a foster-brother at home who, I think, is a relation of yours.' That would be a nice piece of cheek, wouldn't it?
gpt
However, mother, I votes as in future we calls Harry Harry Bayley instead of Harry Holl.
human
You won't do anything of the sort, Evan, the cripple lad answered hotly.
gpt
Holl's my name, and you don't suppose I am going to drop the name of the father and mother who brought me up, and have tended me all these years, for Bayley or any other name; besides, even if it should turn out that I am remotely connected with the family, there is no reason why my name should be Bayley, for, of course, if my mother had been a Bayley, she would have changed her name when she married.
human
He didn't think much would come of it; still, he didn't see as how there could be any harm in asking, seeing that she had set her mind on it.