“Yes, the one who stood up in the boat was working the oar as hard as he could.”
“Which means as he was in a hurry, sir.”
“It did seem like it, Tom.”
“On a hot day like this here, sir. Boys, too, as wouldn’t work a scull if they warn’t obliged. Why, they’d been and done it, and was cutting away as hard as they could.”
“It does look likely, Tom.”
“That’s it, sir. We’ve got the bearings of it now. It were Big Jem and young Redcap, warn’t it?”
“One of the boys had on a red cap, Tom. I remember now.”
“Then don’t you wherrit your head no more about it, Master Aleck. It was them two as did it, and I shall put it down to their account.”
“But we ought to be sure.”
“Sure, sir? Why, we are sure, and they’ll have to take it.”