human
You see the result of this? Daniel Barry is a man to whom the desert is necessary, because he was made for the desert. He is lonely among crowds--you have said it yourself--but he is at home in a mountain wilderness with a horse and a dog.
gpt
Doc, you talk well, broke in Joe Cumberland,
human
Simply because he is different. You get from him what you could get from no other man in the world, perhaps, and you fail to see that the fellow is really more akin to his wolf-dog than he is to a man.
gpt
Supposin' I said you was right, murmured the old man, frowning,
human
It is easy to explain the girl's attraction, said the doctor.
gpt
All animals wish to mate, Mr. Cumberland, and an age old instinct is now working out in Dan Barry. But while you and Kate may please him, you are not necessary to him. He left you once before and he was quite happy in his desert. And I tell you, Mr. Cumberland, that he will leave you again. You cannot tame the untameable. It is not habit that rules this man. It is instinct a million years old. The call which he will hear is the call of the wilderness, and to answer it he will leave father and wife and children and ride out with his horse and his dog!
human
I don't want to believe you, he said slowly,
gpt
Let the man stay with her. In time she will come to see the brute nature of Daniel Barry. That will be the end of him with her.
human
Brute. Doc. They ain't nobody as gentle as Dan!
gpt
Till he tastes blood, a lion can be raised like a house-dog,
human
Then she mustn't marry him? Ay, I've felt it--jest what you've put in words. It's livin' death for Kate if she marries him! She's kept him here to-day. To-morrow something may cross him, and the minute he feels the pull of it, he'll be off on the trail--the blow of a man, the hollering out of the wild geese--God knows what it'll take to start him wild again and forget us all--jest the way a child forgets its parents!
gpt
Dan! Dan Barry!