`` He 'll be only too glad to lend me all we require . '' The sergeant was a friend of Kate 's , but he looked at her as if he thought she was crazy when she told him where we were going . `` You 'd better take a canoe instead of a team , '' he said sarcastically . `` I 've a good notion to arrest you both as horse thieves and prevent you from going on such a mad expedition . '' `` You know nothing short of arrest would stop me , '' said Kate , nodding at him with laughing eyes , `` and you really wo n't go to such an extreme , I know . So please be nice , even if it comes hard , and lend us some things . I 've come a-borrying . '' `` I wo n't lend you a thing , '' declared the sergeant . `` I wo n't aid and abet you in any such freak as this . Go home now , like a good girl . '' `` I 'm not going home , '' said Kate . `` I 'm not a ` good girl ' -- I 'm a wicked old maid , and I 'm going to Bothwell . If you wo n't lend us a tent we 'll go without -- and sleep in the open -- and our deaths will lie forever at your door . I 'll come back and haunt you , if you do n't lend me a tent . I 'll camp on your very threshold and you wo n't be able to go out of your door without falling over my spook . '' `` I 've more fear of being accountable for your death if I do let you go , '' said Sergeant Baker dubiously . `` However , I see that nothing but physical force will prevent you . What do you want ? '' `` I want , '' said Kate , `` a cavalry tent , a sheet-iron camp stove , and a good Indian guide -- old Peter Crow for choice . He 's such a respectable-looking old fellow , and his wife often works for us . ''
The sergeant gave us the tent and stove , and sent a man down XXXXX the Reserve for Peter Crow .
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