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When they went back, it was the same story, only they went faster, and they reached the palace almost before they knew they had set out. Now when they sat down to dinner, the Prince who had served with the Giant said he thought they ought to ask the maiden who had lent them her shovel-handle and porch-door, and calf, to come up to the palace.
One of the latter I struck only six inches under the surface, by making a fresh breach a few feet away. While I was leaning upon my shovel-handle and recovering my breath, I heard some light-footed creature tripping over the leaves above me just out of view, which I fancied might be a squirrel.
When he reached his destination, he found another boat at the Head, and soon discovered Laud Cavendish on the bluff. "Hallo, Don John!" shouted the swell, as Donald stepped on shore. "How are you, Laud? You are out early." "Not very; I came ashore here to see if I couldn't find some clams," added Laud, as he held up a clam-digger he carried in his hand a kind of trowel fixed in a shovel-handle.
Inside the store he found Doret and the trader in conversation with a man he had not met before, a ragged nondescript whose overalls were blue and faded and patched, particularly on the front of the legs above the knees, where a shovel-handle wears hardest; whose coat was of yellow mackinaw, the sleeves worn thin below the elbows, where they had rubbed against his legs in his work.
"That shovel-handle proves that somebody has been here, and, yes, that is where somebody bored into the rocks and set off a blast! I must investigate this, and if it looks promising I'll call the others. No use in exciting Roger unless it's worth while." Dave climbed up to the split and peered within. All was so dark that he could see but little.
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