The Duffys had been through the Long Wet, and they were not going to stop saying so. "Dark the whole way," said Cass, with her mouth full. "Dark you could chew." "Chew it," said Tup, who agrees with everything his sister says, a moment after she says it. Birdie Nowak had nothing. No tunnel, no story, nothing anybody wanted to hear. Fog had come down on the cut and stopped every boat where it stood. *Mudlark* sat at Cobbler's Lock with her chimney going straight up. "I've got something better than a tunnel," said Birdie. She had not.