human
I believe that trail is scarcely practicable to a white man. Only one or two have ever tried it,
gpt
That is so much the better. I am, however, certainly going in.
human
They have been sending a good many of the Northwest Police into that country.
gpt
From one point of view I think they were wise. It's not the contented that one usually finds mining in the wilderness. The soil, of course, is British, but that, after all, does not imply very much.
human
You mean that the men up there have no country?
gpt
Some of them, at least, have unpleasantly good memories. They are the cast-outs and the superfluities; but, as no doubt you know, it is not their criminals the older lands get rid of now.
human
That, said Hetty sharply,
gpt
I believe they are, now and then. Now, suppose you tell me about the Green River country.