"You promised to take us back to Burlington, Dory; and now you are going to drag us back to Plattsburgh," growled Corny.
"But you don't want to sail all over the lake with a thief. If I go to Burlington now, I shall be running away from the officers. I must go to Plattsburgh, and face the music."
"Hurrah for Dory!" shouted Thad. "Is that the way a thief does it?"
"Hurrah for Dory!" added Dick Short. "That isn't the way a thief does it."
"But I want to go home. I don't want my mother to worry about me," added Corny.
"You called me a thief just now, and I can't run away from the place where they accuse me. I will put you ashore at the light-house, or on Colchester Point."
"You might as well put me ashore on Stave Island. I want to go back to Burlington."
"We are bound to Plattsburgh now; and I shall not stop to rest until I have seen the men that charge me with stealing that money," replied Dory very decidedly.
"The man that charges you is in that steamer, and you run away from him," retorted Corny.
"The Missisquoi is hard and fast aground. If I give myself up to him, I shall only have to stay on board of her all day; for he may not get off. I may be in Plattsburgh before he is."