human
Who put that stake there?
gpt
I don't know,
human
If this fellow would answer, I presume the only statement he could make is that it was put there by surveyors of the Canadian and United States Governments.
gpt
Humph! Funny surveyor's stake, isn't it? grunted the Canadian officer,
human
Methinks we shan't go much farther to prove this fellow a fabricator of fairy tales. So that's the international boundary line, is it?
gpt
I was told it was; that's all I know about it,
human
Well that was a lucky reply if you intend to persist in your policy of evasion, Mr. Buckley declared.
gpt
I was about to denounce you as an illustrious liar. The boundary line between the United States and Canada along here, my dear sir, doesn't cut islands in two. If you will examine a map or chart of the Lake of the Thousand Islands, you will see that the boundary line winds like a snake, dodging the islands through its entire course in this part of the St. Lawrence river.
human
It was foolish of me to swallow such a yarn as that, said Mr. Baker.
gpt
But I called his bluff good and strong. However, I'm much relieved to discover that my credulity was imposed upon; otherwise I might be accused of trying to drag the United States and Canada into war.
human
I think we have got as much out of this man as we may hope to get at the present time, the officer announced a moment later.
gpt
I think I had better take him back with me and you had better come along, Mr. Baker, and swear out a warrant charging him with kidnapping.
human
That's exactly what I'm going to do if my son is not returned to me to-night or early in the morning, answered the man thus addressed.
gpt
I suppose you have no objection to remaining here over night.
human
Oh, no; it'll be easier to take care of the prisoner here over night than to work overtime, going back at night, and jail him. But we'll have to keep careful watch over him to-night and see that he doesn't escape.
gpt
Maybe we'd better lock him up in one of the staterooms of the yacht,
human
Yes, and keep a good watch over him all night, Cub put in.
gpt
We want to make sure those three friends of his don't come back after dark and let 'im out
human
I'll watch with Mr. Buckley, Mr. Baker volunteered.
gpt
We're both armed and I don't think there's any chance of our being taken by surprise.
human
We'll watch in two-hour shifts, Mr. Buckley proposed.
gpt
In that way we'll keep fresh and on the alert, so that there'll be less danger of being taken by surprise.
human
Very well, that's agreed upon, if it's satisfactory to Mr. Perry,