human
Any news of Potter Waite to-day?
gpt
No change, La Mothe said.
human
Still unconscious or something like that.
gpt
Anybody seen him? Any of the crowd been out to Mount Clemens?
human
No good. They wouldn't let anybody in. They say he just lies with his eyes half open. When you say he's alive that ends it. It's a matter of days, they say.
gpt
Seems like we ought to do something--this crowd he trained with,
human
We'll get together and send him some bang-up flowers, said Randall.
gpt
One of those pillow things, or a horseshoe or something. Most likely they'll want us for pall-bearers.
human
I sent him a box of cigars and a book,
gpt
Which, being unconscious, he's enjoyed like the devil, said La Mothe.
human
There's the Teutonic mind for you, fellows. Gets an idea and goes ahead with it regardless.... I suppose if Potter had been an Englishman you'd have sent him cigars with dynamite in 'em.
gpt
You always send cigars and books to a sick man,
human
And torpedo vessels--even when there are women and babies on 'em. Women and babies ought to keep off vessels, is that your idea?
gpt
Of course.... Listen here, you fellows. His voice changed to the voice of one repeating a lesson learned by heart. Even the wording was not his own.
human
Germany acted within her rights in sinking the _Lusitania_, because she gave preliminary notice to all the world by establishing a war zone around England. She gave special notice to travelers before the sailing of the _Lusitania_. England is to blame for what happened because she used American citizens as human shields to guard ammunition supplies on an English auxiliary cruiser.
gpt
Hear! Hear! applauded La Mothe.
human
Doesn't he recite beautifully! Who taught you the piece, Wilhelm?
gpt
I hear the von Essen girl is coming out all right,
human
Her father said so at the Harmonie last night, Kraemer told them.
gpt
She'll be out of the hospital in a couple of weeks. Nothing broken, just shock, and a little concussion.... If Potter doesn't die von Essen will kill him. He talked like a crazy man.
human
Wonder how she got mixed up with Potter? Watts said.
gpt
She's only a kid, isn't she?
human
The speediest kid this town's seen for a while. Regular little devil. Always up to something. They say she had old von Essen fighting for air most of the time. La Mothe usually could be trusted to supply the spice.
gpt
Natural enough she and Potter should fly in a flock. Same kind of birds.
human
The rate Potter was traveling, he was bound to come a cropper some day,