“Well,” he said, “I like that. Faith to your friends is a big equipment for life.”
“But why are you going?” I asked.
“Because I love Kentucky best of all things in the world,” he answered, smiling.
“And what are you going to do?” I insisted.
“Ah,” he said, “that I can't tell even to you.”
“To catch Hamilton?” I ventured at random.
He looked at me queerly.
“Would you go along, Davy?” said he, laughing now.
“Would you take Tom?”
“Among the first,” answered Colonel Clark, heartily.