human
Well, Mr Carrol, proceeded the governor, after a pause;
gpt
Yes, I know that,
human
And, having now got a little ahead of the world, I feel that I have a right to indulge some of my fancies. I want a better house, for instance.
gpt
Do you, now?
human
And so I've made up my mind to build; and I want a good site. Now you see what I am driving at.
gpt
Well, no; I can't say that I do exactly.
human
Why, Cris, you are dull to-day. I say I want a good site for my new house.
gpt
Well, ain't you got hundreds of acres--enough and to spare for the most tremenjous big house as was ever built?
human
That's true; but on all my land there's not a spot I really like. Does that seem strange to you?
gpt
Mighty strange to me, but, perhaps, not so strange to you, governor.
human
But there _is_ a bit of ground, Cris, continued Elias,
gpt
Why don't you buy it?
human
Just what I wish to do; but the owner won't sell.
gpt
Perhaps you don't offer enough.
human
No; that's not the reason.
gpt
What is it, then?
human
Do you know the top of the hill?
gpt
What, where the Injuns make their camp?
human
Yes; that's the place where I want to build. Oluski won't sell that piece of property to me. Why, I don't know.
gpt
Wal, what I have I to do with that?
human
Why, I thought if you were to see Oluski, perhaps you might talk him into letting me have the ground. I've set my mind on it; and I wouldn't care if it cost me a good round sum. I'll pay you well for any trouble you may take in helping me.
gpt
It won't do, governor; it won't do, said Carrol, shaking his head.
human
I see now, plain as can be, what you're after; but I won't help you in it. If you wants the property, and Oluski won't let you have it, then the Injun's got his own reasons, and it ain't for me to try and change 'em. Besides, added he,
gpt
I don't like the job; so no offence meant, but I must say now--and I says it once and for all. Is that all you've got to say to me?
human
Well, sir, he didn't say much about anything special, except to ask me to look after the Injun lad, and see to his wounds. I did that in first-class style, and, as I told you before, _he's_ all right. Your son has been down every day to see my patient, as the doctor chaps calls them they physics. He 'peared mighty anxious to know how it was that he had come over to this part of the country alone, and where was the young girl, his sister.
gpt
Ah! so he was inquiring about her, was he?