With Quincy he went to the house of the sheriff and obtained his permission to call the men together.
Every man, it seemed, was at the meeting.
Talbot told them that he was sent by the governor of New Hampshire with a message for Ethan Allen.
"Then why don't you give him the message?" asked Remember Baker.
"I have done so and he refuses to accede to the governor's request."
"Then you may be sure that the governor is in the wrong."
"What is the message?" asked Peleg Sunderland.
Talbot told them all he was instructed to do, and a loud laugh went up from every man as he heard.
"So Col. Allen refuses to go?"
"He does."