Why did he come ?" Scott smiled.

"We were plainly in some danger, but I don't imagine Black Steve was moved by a generous impulse to save our lives.

In fact, if it had promised him some advantage, I rather think he'd have seen us buried." "You don't claim it was a sense of duty ?" "Not in a way; Steve's too primitive.

On the whole, I think he explained the thing best when he said it was his job.

A fellow of his kind doesn't reason like you; perhaps he did once, but lost the habit in the bush.
He's, so to speak, atavistic; moved by instincts, like the Indians and animals." "But I don't see--" "Perhaps it isn't very obvious," Scott admitted.