The things we do!

I had got my apparatus finished now, and in the afternoon I climbed up to
the roof of the main building and set it up there. I saw at once that the
sight cut the hillside several metres below the top. Good. Even reckoning
a whole metre down to the water-level, there would still be pressure
enough and to spare.
While I was busy up there the priest's son caught sight of me. Harald
Meltzer was his name. And what was I doing up there? Measuring the hill;
what for? What did I want to know the height for? Would I let him try?
Later on I got hold of a line ten metres long, and measured the hill from
foot to summit, with Harald to help. When we came down to the house, I
asked to see the priest himself, and told him of my plan.


VI

The priest listened patiently, and did not reject the idea at once.
"Really, now!" he said, with a smile. "Why, perhaps you're right. But it
will cost a lot of money. And why should we trouble about it at all?"
"It's seventy paces from the house to the well we started to dig.


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