"You can't get her right in less than two days, Len, as you will have to get her out of this as soon as you can."
"I will stay here till you are ready, Len," said Winslow, "if Mr. Gotro will permit me to go over his island."
"The shore is free to all," answered the old man.
"Can you put me up? Any small room will serve for the few hours I will spend in it," asked Winslow.
"We never keep people, sir," said Pierre, kindly. "At the house on the mainland there are several Americans staying, and they can keep you there."
"You will have to cross by the stone ford in about an hour, or you can cross over in a boat at half flood," explained Len.
"I think I will examine the rear of the island first, where the formation is so broken," said Winslow. "What do the veins contain?"
"You will find minerals of different kinds there. Many people come here and carry away a great deal of stone of different colors, which they seem to consider valuable. I send several boxes of it away every spring, after the frost comes out of the cliff and lets down the specimens. The rock is dangerous and overhangs very much, and is loose and broken. The best veins are above, where it is not easy to get to them. Those below have been broken out and are not so good."
"I can see the beautiful coloring of the veins from here, through my glass. Have the cliffs never been climbed?"