human
Jim, burst out Johnson, controlling himself evidently with effort,
gpt
I want to ask you something. I want you to tell me something. I want you to tell me who it was grubstaked you that winter you needed grubstaking mighty bad. I want you to tell me who it was got you out of that scrape over in Lincoln County two years ago. I want you to tell me who it was took care of you last winter--under mighty trying circumstances, too--and put you in the way of easy money this spring! But you needn't tell me, he suddenly concluded, picking up the cards savagely.
human
I know who it was without your telling me, and you know who it was without my telling you. And now what's the returns? When I give you a chance to come back a little--in a dead-square, open game of cards--you crawl into your shell and act like I'd asked you to step on the gallows.
gpt
I don't think I'm playing the hog, exactly, he rejoined, evenly.
human
I guess maybe I'm thinking of the horse as much as anything. And not so much of him, either, maybe, as of you, the way you handle horses if they don't dance a two-step when you want a two-step. In about a week, Johnson, he continued, mildly,
gpt
We'll now cut for deal,
human
Take myself, went on the other, half smiling
gpt
he added, quietly.
human
And an animal to me is an animal and something more. A horse, for instance. I see more in a horse than just an easy way of getting around. But that ain't you. You're like a man I once knowed that kept a dog just because the dog was a good hunter. If I couldn't see more in a dog than just what he's fit for, I'd quit the sport.
gpt
Now we'll cut for deal.
human
Cut for deal, he said, quietly.
gpt
You!