Hence, as he hastened forward, he was thinking more of the lake itself than of Henry's somewhat enigmatic words, "We're going to live in it." They soon reached its margin, and Paul uttered a little cry of delight.

It was a splendid sheet of water, shaped like a half moon, seven miles long, perhaps, and two miles across at the center.

But at the widest part stood a gem of a wooded island, covered with giant trees.

High hills, clothed with magnificent forest, rose all around the lake.
The beauty of the scene penetrated the souls of all.

Uneducated men like Shif'less Sol and Jim Hart felt it as well as Paul.