"What would you have me do?"
"Send for Allen; make him a deputy in the mountain district; give him more power than any other man in the district, and then tell Gov. Tryon to capture Allen if he can."
"Your advice may be good; I will think over it and will decide before I see these men on the morrow."
CHAPTER VII.
AN AMBUSCADE.
The energetic governor of New York had a spy present during the interview between the Green Mountain leader and the governor of New Hampshire.
Tryon had made up his mind to use his influence—and it was great—to have England amalgamate the two colonies and make him the ruler of the consolidated district.
In fact, he had already planned a scheme by which all of New England should be federated under his lead, thus creating a vice-gerency in the New World which should be all-powerful.
To carry out this plan he hoped to embroil the governor of New Hampshire with the mountaineers, and thus, by creating dissensions, show to England that a strong hand was needed.