"Who of you has the charter?"
"I have not," answered one.
"Nor I."
"Nor I," answered each and every one.
"It was the boy," cried the enraged governor. "I saw him; he struck my hand in the dark; yet I knew it was he. Where is he? Whose son is he?"
Every member of the assembly shook their heads.
"We do not know him. He does not live in Connecticut."
"Where does he live?"
"He is from Massachusetts and beyond even the claimed bounds of your jurisdiction."
"So this is another trick. You have imported one from a distant colony to steal the charter," the indignant governor cried.