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Rh "looks like we're going to the Arctic all right. Makes a polo tumble feel rather petty, eh?"

"Then Margaret's going through with it, is she?" asked Latham.

"Through with it? She's got down to planning the frills—our Christmas dinner, and a present for each man if we get caught in the ice and have to stay there through the winter."

The next day the man who had been sent to Louisiana wired a report that neither proved nor disproved the authenticity of the message brought by the arctic goose. But already the Viborg was chartered, half the crew engaged, and the date of departure for the north definitely set.