Will you leave your comfort and your games for a season, and play for higher stakes at a more desperate hazard ?" I told him everything, even down to my talk with the Governor.

I did not lessen the risks and hardships, and I gave him to know that his companions would be rough folk, whom he may well have despised.

He heard me out with his eyes fixed on the ground.

Then suddenly he raised a shining face.
"You are a generous enemy, Mr.Garvald.I behaved to you like a peevish child, and you retaliate by offering me the bravest venture that man ever conceived.

I am with you with all my heart.