human
So you are going to send him away from New York?
gpt
Of course, you don't s'pose we would be very safe with him here, do you?
human
Safe enough, so long as he is in old Gunwagner's cell. But what is to be done with him? Send him back to Vermont?
gpt
Not much; he won't go there unless he escapes.
human
It's rough on the fellow, Mort, to run him off to sea, or to make him a prisoner in the bottom of a coal barge or canal boat. But that is what he is likely to get from that old shark,
gpt
Don't you get soft hearted now,
human
I'm not soft hearted, Mort, and you know it, but I don't like this business, any way.
gpt
What did you go into it for, then?
human
What do we do anything for? I thought, from what you said, that he was a coarse young countryman. But he don't seem like it. In fact I believe he is too nice a fellow to be ruined for life.
gpt
Perhaps you'd better get him out then,
human
You talk like a fool,
gpt
So do you,