"Well, everybody knows about the boat from Sharon to Three Mile Bay around there."
"Oh, do they? Any other reason?"
"Well, in looking for a place to get married, both of us saw it," returned Clyde, shrewdly, "but we didn't see that any train went to it. Only to Sharon."
"But you did notice that it was south of Big Bittern?"
"Why, yes—I guess I did," replied Clyde.
"And that that road west of Gun Lodge led south toward it around the lower edge of Big Bittern?"
"Well, I noticed after I got up there that there was a road of some kind or a trail anyhow—but I didn't think of it as a regular road."
"I see. How was it then that when you met those three men in the woods you were able to ask them how far it was to Three Mile Bay?"
"I didn't ask 'em that," replied Clyde, as he had been instructed by Jephson to say. "I asked 'em if they knew any road to Three Mile Bay, and how far it was. I didn't know whether that was the road or not."
"Well, that wasn't how they testified here."