"What charge is there against him?"
"That we shall have to determine."
"Until then he will stay with us. I will be personally responsible for him."
Nothing more was said, and Allen and his Mountain Boys walked out of the governor's presence, taking Eben with them.
"Talbot, I would rather have that man as a friend than an enemy," said Wentworth when he was alone with the attorney-general.
"It will be better policy to please Ethan Allen and his mountaineers than Gov. Tryon of York."
"I am thinking you are right."
"If we do not placate Allen he will make terms with New York."
"But would Tryon agree to terms?"
"The Yorkers would make Allen deputy-governor, and Allen could take all the land west of the Connecticut over with him."