“Can you dig that well all alone?”
“No. I'll have to take another man along.”
“Take me,” I said. “Wait for me here, while I go up and settle at the
house.”
Half-way up I heard Grindhusen calling again:
“I can't wait here all night. And I don't believe you meant it, anyway.”
“Wait just a minute. I'll be down again directly.”
And Grindhusen sets himself down on the beach to wait. He knows I've
some of that first-rate _Brændevin_ still left.