human
What are you about there, Zed?
gpt
Only looking up your pistols, master,
human
Why, you seem to be loading them,
gpt
Just loaded the little ones, master; will load the big ones in a minute.
human
Stay, stay. Why are you loading them? I demanded,
gpt
I don't want them loaded.
human
Oh, always better to have pistols loaded in troublesome times, master, answered the man earnestly.
gpt
Better let me load them.
human
Come here, and speak to me.
gpt
Do you know anything, I said sternly,
human
No,
gpt
I suspect you do, I rejoined;
human
Master, I do not know anything, replied Zed;
gpt
Did you see any arms amongst them?
human
No; they had no arms, he answered;
gpt
Most probably they were out upon some frolic, I suggested, entertaining some slight suspicion that my good friend Zed had not entirely forgotten the beating he had received in coming from the camp-meeting.
human
Give me that light jacket, I continued,