“We’ll take you up there before the summer’s over,” Bob promised.
“Did you notice anything peculiar about Jacques when I told him where we’re going?” Bob asked as he pushed the canoe off and dug his paddle deep in the water.
“No, why?”
“I just wondered.”
“But did you?”
“Well, I hardly know. Perhaps I just imagined it but it seemed to me that he wasn’t very anxious for us to go.”
“But what earthly reason could he have?”
“Haven’t an idea unless he’s mixed up in this mess in some way.”
“But you don’t think—”
“No I don’t think he is but you never can tell, you know,” Bob interrupted.