Apparently he found the tale most amusing.
"Well, if that ain't the rummest story ever I heard! It beats a novel by 'bout a mile.

I never was married myself, sir, but I've got a blamed pretty girl waitin' for me back in ol' Illinoy, an' I reckon I know what she'd want me to do in a case like this.

Sure, I'm with you until the cows come home, and so are the rest o' the boys.

Lord, this is the kind o' sojerin' I like; somethin' happenin' every minute.

What's next, sir ?" "Perhaps I better look over the house first," I said thoughtfully, "and see where we can stow away these prisoners without needing all our men to guard them.