"It isn't Fisher's fertilizer factory, then?"
"No, no! You're all off. That's a mile and over up the shore."
"But wasn't this lane behind us once known as Lorimer's lane?"
"So it was."
"I thought Fisher's fertilizer factory stood at the foot of Lorimer's lane?"
"So it did."
"Explain yourself."
"Well, the explanation is easy enough, boss; there's two Lorimer's lanes."
This settled it.
Bestowing a dollar on the lone fisherman in exchange for his information, Old King Brady started in to rectify his blunder.