human
There have been only the two here--that's plain, he says.
gpt
Father and daughter, you think? What a pity we didn't get up in time to bid `good-day' to them! 'Twould have simplified matters much. You'd then have had your young chick to carry to the cage you intend for it, without the mother bird to make any bother or fluttering in your face; while I might have executed my commission sooner than expected.
human
he continues after a short while spent in considering.
gpt
They can't have gone very far as yet. You say it's quite twenty miles to the place where the _gringo_ has his headquarters. If so, and they've not been in a great hurry to get home--which like enough the girl would, since her dear Cypriano don't appear to be along--we may come up with them by putting on speed. Let us after them at once! What say you?