human
I'm not sure that it wouldn't be wiser, but I've got to stay, he said.
gpt
Anyway, Allonby wouldn't come.
human
That don't count. If you'll stand in, we'll take him along on the jumper sled. The old tank's 'most played out, and it's only the whisky that's keeping the life in him. He'll go out on the long trail sudden when there's no more of it, and it's going to be quite a long while before the freighter gets a load over the big divide.
gpt
I'm half afraid it would kill him to leave the mine, he said.
human
It's the hope of striking silver that's holding him together as much as the whisky.
gpt
Well, said the man, who laughed softly,
human
I've been mining and prospecting most of twenty years, and it's my opinion that, except the little you're getting on the upper level, there's not a dollar's worth of silver here. Now I guess Harry will have breakfast ready.