"Then you do admit that some day or another ships will come to which it will be possible to sell them?" Fritz enquired.
"Not a bit of it," Jack replied; "when we sell them it will be in open market in New Switzerland."
"Open market, Jack! From the way you talk one would suppose it won't be very long before New Switzerland has open markets."
"No doubt about it, Fritz; or that it will have villages and little towns, cities, and even a capital, which, naturally, will be Rock Castle."
"And when will that be?"
"When the provinces of New Switzerland have several thousand inhabitants."
"Foreigners?"
"No, no, Fritz," Jack declared; "Swiss: none but Swiss. Our native land has enough people to be able to send us a few hundred families."
"But it never has had any colonies, and I don't suppose it ever will, Jack."
"Well, it will have one, at any rate, Fritz."