human
These are the friends I spoke of, Mr. Carson,
gpt
Where's the rest of them?
human
These are all.
gpt
All?
human
Yes, sir.
gpt
Why, by the way you talked, I reckoned you were going to bring your whole company along.
human
You are lucky to be counted as friends of a young man like Mr. Merriwell, said the cattleman.
gpt
That is, you're lucky if he's anything like what my boy wrote that he was. My boy is a great admirer of him.
human
It's strange I don't remember your son,
gpt
Why, he's a freshman.
human
Yes, but I know a large number of freshmen.
gpt
So my boy said. Said you knew them because some of them had been trying to do you a bad turn; but he was glad to see you get the best of them, for you were all right. He said the freshmen as a class thought so, too.
human
Your son was very complimentary. If I return to Yale, I shall look him up.
gpt
Then you contemplate returning to college?
human
I do.
gpt
When?
human
Next fall, if I do not lose my money backing my play.
gpt
Oh, you won't lose forty-three thousand dollars.
human
That is not all mine to lose. Only one-fifth of that belongs to me, and I can lose that sum.
gpt
Then why don't you let the show business alone and go back to college on that?
human
Because I have determined to make a success with this play, and I will not give up. Never yet in my life have I been defeated in an undertaking, and I will not be defeated now.
gpt
You make me think of some verses I read once, he said.
human
I've always remembered them, and I think they've had something to do with my success in life. They were written by Holmes.