"His accent."
"But, Eben, he speaks French fluently."
"Yes, like a Frenchman, not a Canadian."
"What do you know about it?"
"In my young days"—Allen had to smile at the boy referring to his young days—"in my young days I used to know a French boy and a Canadian Frenchman, and they could scarcely understand one another. The French boy used to say, 'You talk French, bah, bah!' and the Canadian used to ask the other why he did not speak proper French."
"I had no idea that you were a linguist."
"If you mean by that that I can talk languages, you are wrong, for I cannot, but I am sure that our guide is not a French Canadian."
"You are too suspicious, and I really do not see what difference it makes what he is; we shall get to know the country and——"
"Miss our way back."
"You think that it is all a trap?"