"No, right below the slough, to the inner side of the island and the main shore."
"Where did the boat seem to come from?" the Inspector asked, looking straight in the boy's face.
"Well, we couldn't exactly be sure; but Jo seemed to think that she had come from the slough—that was what set us to thinking she must be a smuggler."
"Have you told anybody about this?"
"No."
"Don't. How about this Indian boy, this Siwash?"
"He hasn't said a word about it to any one. I made him keep it quiet till I had told you."
"Sure no one else knows?"
"No one; at least no one but the man in the outer office here."
"What did you tell him for?" the Chief asked, with sudden vexation.