"No, not river-edge," I explained: "revenge" (saying the word very slowly).
That's the end of the rail-bed which we have been building along the river-edge.
Then they stayed no more, but, running one this way and one that, cast themselves into the flood and swam for the river-edge.
For reply he pointed me to a canoe half hidden in the bushes where roadside and river-edge came together.
It is up to the red-coated lads of the river-edge to appear in the drama as gods-from-the-machine.