“But you can think, I know. Now, think hard—hard.”
“First,” said Bevis slowly, tracing out the proceedings in his imagination; “first we must bring all our things—the gun and powder, and provisions, and great-coats, and the astrolabe, and spears, and leave them all here.”
“Pan ought to come,” said Mark, “to watch the hut.”
“So he did; he shall come, and besides, if we shoot a wild duck he can swim out and fetch it.”
“Now go on,” said Mark. “First, we bring everything and Pan.”
“Tie him up,” said Bevis, “and row home in the boat. Then the thing is, how are we to get to the island?”
“Swim,” said Mark.
“Too far.”
“But we needn’t swim all up the New Sea. Couldn’t we swim from where we landed that night after the battle?”
“Ever so much better. Let’s go and look,” said Bevis.