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The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge Chapter 26: April 14, 1824

By Michael Punke

Chapter 26: April 14, 1824

Lieutenant Jonathon Jacobs is manning his post when a scout approaches with strange news—an odd-looking white man is walking their way.
Jacobs presents this visitor to Major Robert Constable, the boss 'round these parts. He's skeptical of Glass until he says that he works for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.
Glass asks Jacob's if he's seen a man "with a fishhook scar"—Fitzgerald (2.26.79). Constable explains how Fitzgerald ended up in the army, and Glass dishes on his revenge quest.
That's going to be a problem, says Major Constable. Glass can't just come in here and kill an Army man. That won't fly. Instead, the Major will be holding a court case.
Major Constable seems way too into pretending to be a judge, if you ask us. Even worse, he seems to be buying into all of Fitzgerald's absurd lies, hook, line, and sinker.
Fitzgerald basically claims that Glass was so delirious after the bear attack that he imagined them stealing his stuff and abandoning him. For real?
Before Fitzgerald can finish his testimony, Glass gets fed up—he pulls out his pistol and shoots Fitzgerald in the shoulder. That's certainly one way to do it.
Glass feels a sharp pain on the back of his head and falls unconscious.