THE CHATEAU OF BEAULIEU They noticed one day a high bluff shooting up on the eastern bank and running along for some distance.

It was clothed in dense green forest, and it was rather a welcome break in the monotony of the low shores.
"A big city will be built there some day," said the prophetic Paul.[B] "Now, Paul, why in tarnation do you say that ?" exclaimed Tom Ross.
"Why, because it's such a good place.

It's a high hill on a great river so well suited to navigation, and it has a vast, rich country behind it." But Tom Ross shook his head.
"Seems to me, Paul," he said, "that you're bitin' off a lot more'n you can chaw.

Things that are to happen a hundred years from now ain't never happenin' fur me." But Paul merely smiled and held to his opinion.
On the following day they tied up at a point, where the river began a sharp and wide curve around a long, narrow peninsula.

It was just about dark when they stopped and, as usual, they were able to run the boat into dense foliage at the margin, where not even the keenest eye could see it.
"We've got plenty of goose and duck left over from dinner," said Henry, "so I'm thinking, Jim, that you'd better not light the fire on your bricks to-night." "All right," replied Jim, "I don't mind restin'.