human
Yes, he said with a gleam in his eyes.
gpt
All this looks lifeless and useless now, but I can see it belted with wheat and oats and flax in the fall. There will be a difference when the binders move through the grain in rows.
human
In rows!
gpt
We'll want a number, if all goes well. Devine's land follows my boundary, and we must drive our plows in one straight line. We begin at the rise yonder and run east to the creek.
human
It's a big thing,
gpt
A beginning. Two men can't do much, but more are coming. In a year or two the wheat will run as far as you can see, and there'll be homesteads all along the skyline.
human
I guess Colonel Mowbray doesn't like what I'm doing?
gpt
He doesn't go so far. It's to what you are persuading our friends to do that he objects.
human
That's a pity. They'll have to follow--not because I lead, but because necessity drives.
gpt
You're taking it for granted that it does drive; and you must see my father's point of view.
human
That I'm encouraging your people to rebel? That's not my wish, but he can't hold them much longer--the drift of things is against him.