human
Isn't this the limit?
gpt
It sure is, replied Joe.
human
I've had lies told about me before but never one that touched me on the raw like this.
gpt
It's a burning outrage,
human
What they expect to make out of it is beyond me, declared Robbie.
gpt
They ought to know that they can't get away with it.
human
But in the meantime it will have done its work, Willis pointed out.
gpt
What if it is contradicted later on? By that time they'll have a dozen stars signed and they should worry. As long as it's believed that Joe has jumped, it's just as good for them as though he had.
human
That's the worst of it, agreed Joe bitterly.
gpt
Of course I'll send a cable contradicting it, but the lie has got a head start and a lot of damage has been done. What do you suppose my friends in America are thinking about me just now?
human
Don't worry about that, Joe, comforted Jim.
gpt
Your real friends won't believe it, and for the rest it doesn't matter. Nobody that really knows you believes you would jump your contract.
human
Whoever got that story up was foxy, though, commented Mylert, the burly catcher of the Giants.
gpt
There are no 'ifs or ands' about it like most phony stories where the fellow's trying to hedge in case someone comes back at him. It sounds like straight goods. It's the most truthful looking lie I ever saw.
human
But it's a lie just the same! cried Joe desperately.
gpt
All you fellows know I wouldn't throw the Giants down, don't you?