human
Nelatu!
gpt
Carrol!
human
Hush! or you'll alarm all the red-skins about the place.
gpt
What are you doing here?
human
I've just dropped out o' that thar window,
gpt
How came you to go in there?
human
I didn't go in of my own will, you may bet high on that. I war brung.
gpt
Who brought you?
human
Some o' yur own Injuns.
gpt
A prisoner?
human
That's about the size o' it. I shouldn't have been one much longer.
gpt
What do you mean?
human
Why, that to-morrow I'd have been as dead as a man could be, with forty or fifty fellows playing blue-blazes on his carcase.
gpt
Ha! they have decreed on burning you?
human
That's it, lad, and consarn me if I ain't glad to be out hyar in the open air a tellin' it you, 'stead of in there a thinkin' on it.
gpt
Who condemned you?
human
Wal, names hev a kind o' slipped my memory, but they wur warriors and braves of yur enlightened community.
gpt
Why did you not send for me?
human
I thought of that, but they told me you war gone, and wouldn't be back in time for the ceremony.
gpt
How did you get out here? Who opened the window?
human
That war done by a angel.
gpt
An angel?--what do you mean?
human
Jist this; that at one of the corners of that thar eternal hole, a angel appeared and showed me the road to liberty.
gpt
Who was it?
human
Wal, it air no use keepin' it from you--
gpt
Speak! who was it?
human
I'll tell you, but first listen a spell to somethin' else. Nelatu, lad, I once did you a sarvice.
gpt
You did! I shall never forget it!
human
Durn it, it warn't for that I made mention on't. It war only this-- look me in the face, and tell me on the word of a man you mean square with me. Do that an' I'll put my trust in ye, as I'm now puttin' my life in your hands.
gpt
Upon an Indian warrior's word, I am your friend!
human
You air, Nelatu? Then dog-gorn me if I doubt you. Your hand!
gpt
It is more nor my life--it am the good name and actions of the most splendiferous, angeliferous critter the sun ever set eyes on! It air--
human
Alice Rody!
gpt
Yes, it war that same gal; but how on airth did you come for to guess it so straight?
human
Because that one name is never absent from my thoughts.
gpt
Ho-ho! he muttered to himself,
human
I fear it, said Nelatu, overhearing the muttered remark;
gpt
Wal, I'll be glad to get it.
human
Then, follow me!