human
I want all the details, he said.
gpt
I wasn't so foolish as to regard this thing as quite spontaneous. You must have worked like a horse.
human
So we have, Hampden admitted.
gpt
Fact is, perils that might beset Londoners have long been a favourite speculative study of mine. And when a thing like this--be it famine, flood, or an Arctic winter--comes we are certain to be the mark of the greedy capitalist. And I knew that the Government would be powerless. Fuel, or the want of it, was one of the very early ideas that occurred to me. I found out where the big supplies were kept, and pretty well what the normal stock is. I pigeon-holed those figures. You can imagine how useful they were last night. There are some two hundred officials of Trades Unions with yonder orderly mob, and every one of them knows exactly where to go. There will be very little crowding or rioting or confusion. And before dark everybody will have his coal.
human
Then you are going to leave the rest to your lieutenants?
gpt
I'm bound to. In a few minutes I shall be on my way to Bow Street. Inciting to robbery, you know. No, there is no occasion to trouble--a hundred men here will be willing to go bail for me. If I were _you_ I should have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of King's Cross by this time.