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74 years after we take our deck load from the Laeso. We're going to take more gasoline too, besides filling up the tanks we've emptied getting here. When do we move out, sir?" Captain McNeal addressed Latham.

"The Laeso goes up as far as Godhaven," Latham replied. "She'll give you your freight there. I'm going to get the Inca to go a little farther too, if the sea is free from ice. So we won't come aboard just yet."

Margaret made no comment till they had returned to the saloon of the yacht.

"You're putting off changing to the Viborg, on my account?" she asked.

"Chiefly."

"Then please don't."

"Bradley'll be glad to go up as far as the ice lets him. He would have offered, but really he didn't think you'd go beyond here."

"Please don't ask him. He and Mrs. Bradley have done too much now. I can't let you ask him to do more on my account."

Latham turned to Geoff. "What do you say?"

"If she goes on board now and can't stand