human
But, good Lord! You said just now that this fellow--this Menehwehna--had promised to help you back to the army, as soon as Spring came. Did he break his word, then?
gpt
No! he would have kept his word. But I didn't want to return.
human
You didn't--want--to return! Dick repeated the words slowly, trying to grasp them.
gpt
Man alive, were you clean mad? Don't you see what cards you held? Oh, he groaned,
human
I don't see,
gpt
God! if such a chance had fallen to _me_! You had intercepted two dispatches, one of which might have hurried the French up from Montreal here to save Fort Frontenac. Wherever you could, you bungled; but you rode on the full tide of luck. And even when you tumbled in love with this girl--oh, you needn't deny it!-- even when you walked straight into the pitfall that ninety-nine men in a hundred would have seen and avoided--your very folly pulled you out of the mess! You escaped, by her grace, having foiled two dispatches and possessed your self of knowledge that might have saved Amherst from wasting ten minutes where he wasted two days. And now you stare at me when I tell you that you held the chance of a lifetime! Why, man, you could have asked what promotion you willed! Some men have luck--! Speech failed him and he cast himself down at full length on the turf again.
human
Go on,