“How?”
“By taking a boat and pulling to the eastward. It’s my earnest belief that the fog don’t extend more than a few hundred yards.”
“It would be mere madness. Suppose you were not able to get back again?”
“I’ll take my chances.”
“Do you really mean to say you are going?”
“I do. I am determined.”
Harry looked amazed.
He urged Jack most earnestly to change his mind.
But Jack would hear to nothing of the sort.
Once his mind was made up to do a certain thing, there was no turning him from his purpose.