He would tell Margaret, 'Lias's old wife, who kept him and tended him like the apple of her eye.

And he would find out about the pool, anyway.

_Jenny Crum's pool ?_ What on earth did that mean?
The name had never reached his ears before.

Of course Uncle Reuben would know.

The boy eyed it curiously, the details of 'Lias's grim vision returning upon him.