“Crazy Dan no got friend.”
“Then it’s time you had some,” Bob assured him kindly.
“What for you hunt after old Dan, eh?”
“Well, you see, it’s like this,” Bob began. “There’s been a lot of things happening over at the camp and we’ve been trying to find out who was at the bottom of it. You understand?”
“Me know. Me did it.”
“But why? What did you want to scare away all the people who came there for?”
For a moment the dwarf hesitated.
“They catch all the fish out the lake. Be no more left for Dan,” he said finally.
“That’s all bosh,” Jack broke in but Bob hushed him.
“But don’t you know that they breed faster than they’re caught out?” he asked.