human
You left the telegrams unopened for a week and more! cried the impatient clerk.
gpt
Why--Oh, why!--did you not let me open them?
human
If I had known, I could have acted. Even the day before yesterday I could have acted. The news came yesterday morning. It was all over the City by three. And Eldorado's down to nothing in a moment.
gpt
Eldorado won't pay up her interest. It's due next week. Nothing to pay it with. Your agent in New York telegraphed this a week ago. He's been confirming the secret every day since. O Lord! O Lord! And you the only man who had the knowledge, and all that stake in it! Can you speak, sir?
human
Listen, then. Ten days ago Eldorados went down after Wylie's pamphlet. You told him what to write and you paid him, just as you did last year. But you tried to hide it from me. That was wrong, sir. I've served you faithfully for twenty years. But never mind that. You bought in at 64. Then the Eldorado minister wrote to the paper. Stock went up to 75. You stood to win, only the day before yesterday, £260,000; more than a quarter of a million. Yesterday, by three, they were down to 16. This morning they are down to 8. And it's settling-day, and you lose--you lose--your all. Oh, what a day, what a day!
gpt
The great name of Gabriel Cassilis dragged in the dust! All your reputation gone--the whole work of your life--O sir! can't you feel even that? Can't you feel the dreadful end of it all--Gabriel Cassilis, the great Gabriel Cassilis, a LAME DUCK!