“Who says so? who has seen it?”
“Nobody ever has seen it. It is impossible to get to it. The water is so swift and full of rocks that no boat can row up, and the shores are all one dank, tangled mass that no one can cut through. Nobody can get there.”
“Why not? I tell you what: we’ll talk to Shaddy to-morrow.”
“He wouldn’t go. He told me once that he tried it, and couldn’t get there. He nearly lost his life.”
“I’ll make him try again and take us.”
“I tell you he wouldn’t.”
“Well, you’ll see.”
“What will you do?”
“Tell him—fair play, mind: you will not speak?”
“Of course not.”