human
Harold, this is false! Tell me it is false!
gpt
I wish to God it were, Bets. But you must keep your feelings under better control if you are to help me out of this miserable state of affairs.
human
You know it is false! she implored.
gpt
I shall tell everybody it's a lie! No one can know him and believe that.
human
You must remember that this all happened years ago, before you and I were born.
gpt
But, his life now! Oh, Harold, you don't believe this! Tell me it isn't true!
human
I've been almost sweating blood over it since I discovered the truth. I've tried to find some other explanation or solution, but there is none other. Father is guilty of the crime for which Adoniah Phillips was made to suffer. I don't know how they got hold of his true name, for he was going under an assumed one over there. But they did, and the worst of it is, the old trader's wife is here in the city right now. She is on Father's track. I've been staving her off, but she smells a rat in the fact that I bear his name, and I can't hold her much longer from locating him.
gpt
No! No! You shall not tell me that Father is a criminal! You must take back that awful word about him!