human
If I get Askatoon before de time for _dat_, I be happy in my heart, for dat brudder off mine he get out of purgatore bime-bye, I t'ink.
gpt
No sleep. If I sleep it is all smash. Man say me I can get Askatoon by dat time from here, if I go queeck way across lak'--it is all froze now, dat lak'--an' down dat Foxtail Hills. Is it so, ma'm'selle?
human
By the 'quick' way if you can make it in time, she said;
gpt
I mus' get dere in time,
human
You can't do it--alone, she said.
gpt
Do you want to risk all and lose?
human
Long way, I no can get dere in time?
gpt
No; it can't be done by the long way. But there is another way--a third trail, the trail the Gover'ment men made a year ago when they came to survey. It is a good trail. It is blazed in the woods and staked on the plains. You cannot miss. But--but there is so little time. She looked at the clock on the wall.
human
You cannot leave here much before sunrise, and--
gpt
I will leef when de moon rise, at eleven,
human
You have had no sleep for two nights, and no food. You can't last it out,
gpt
It is my vow to my brudder--he is in purgatore. An' I mus' do it, he rejoined, with an emphasis there was no mistaking.
human
You can show me dat way?