They would leave him here forever and tell his uncle he had died.
So, he had not told his uncle the news, yet!
"Because she knew I had been married, and was threatening to tell my uncle about it."
As he'd told his uncle, turning himself in was out of the question.
"I should never have been brought here," he told his uncle.
She was telling her uncle what had happened; he and Paul hurried to the window.
"The gold is soft," I heard one of the workers tell my uncle.
"Now you will be able to tell my uncle so."
On a camping trip a few years later, he told his uncle too.
He told his uncle of their encounters with the boy.