“What about the portages?” There was a faint note of anger in Sandy’s voice.
“Yuh’ll have to pack it, o’ course,” McCallum said. “But it’s almost as easy to build a big raft as a small one.”
“The dinosaur’s skeleton is too big and too heavy to pack,” declared Sandy haughtily.
“Yuh don’t say.”
“It certainly is.”
“What yuh gonna do then?”
“We’ve given it up,” Sandy spoke harshly. “We’re starting back to Half Way House this afternoon.”
Wolf Brennan spat in the water and glanced inquiringly at the three occupants in the other canoe.
“If yuh fellows was right smart now, yuh wouldn’t give up so easily. There’s a lot o’ money to be made if yuh can manage to get that big lizard back where it can be took to one o’ the company’s steamers. If I was making a contract now,” Wolf Brennan spat in the water again, “I’m thinkin’ I’d move Heaven an’ earth afore I’d give up.”
Sandy glanced back at him.