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Rh it, she can get on the Laeso at Godhaven and come back. She'll have time to get sick of it—if she's going to—before it's too late to return," Geoff suggested.

"How about taking the freight from the Laeso now?" Latham asked.

"Taking a deck load before we have to would be running a needless danger," Margaret returned. "Going on board now is merely an inconvenience."

"All right," Latham agreed, and went out and gave his orders.

Immediately men began transferring to the Viborg the personal effects, scientific instruments, medicine and other supplies that had come from the States on the yacht. The extra men brought over from Denmark as engineers went aboard the Laeso. Good-byes were said that night and thanks given to the owners of the Inca. That same night—the sun was shining now almost twenty hours—the Laeso started north, the Viborg following

"Arctic trim, eh?" Geoff said cheerfully, as he crowded into the cabin which he and Latham