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52 first player in your position in the country. And I thought I was going with you too!"

"You can go with me if you want into the Arctic—in fact, I believe you're rather counted on."

"No!"

"Yes, for you sister's going."

Geoff stared. "Meg?"

"You might go see her."

Geoff rushed from the room.

"Good Lord!" Dazedly he joined Price a quarter of an hour later.

"Well—going?" asked Latham.

"Going? Sure I'm going. Entirely aside from the requirements of the position—decencies and all that—I've got to go. Sister going up into the Arctic while brother stays at the golf club. I witness myself surviving that. They'd cartoon me in curls. Confound girls anyway! Price, why the devil are you doing it for her anyway?"