Part 29 (1/2)
”We are going to have a tough night of it,” he reasoned ”Guess further sleep will be out of the question”
Hoping he would find his chum in the stateroom, Dave returned to the apartment Here another surprise was in store for him The door was locked from the inside He rapped loudly several times
”hello! Who's there?” caer, is that you? Let ht you were in your berth”
The senator's son came to the door and opened it Dave entered the staterooer, where have you been?” he demanded
”So you kneent out, did you?” asked the senator's son, in a voice that showed he was vexed ”I thought I went out and caht you were still in your berth”
”I got up, one--and the berth made up as if you hadn't used it” Dave paused and looked at his chuht as well tell you I ot red ”I'm as bad as Shadow Ha, as he did,” added Dave hastily, referring to an unfortunate incident already well known to my old readers
”I don't think I did--but I don't knohere I went”
”You made up your bed, too”
”Did I? That's queer”
”And you don't knohere you went at all, Roger?”
”No, I haven't the slightest idea”
”Were you drea about Nick Jasniff--he was trying to take soot afraid of hiht I heard you screao”
”That woke eways not far froot back here all right”
”After this you had better tie yourself to the bed,” was Dave's final reain extinguished
But anything more than fitful dozes could not be had The North Sea is well known for its violent stor the winter months, and this one proved to be a ”corker,” as Dave called it afterwards The waves were lashed into a tremendous fury, and some broke over the stea away a twenty-foot section of the forward rail The high as accompanied by a snow that was as fine and hard as salt, and this sifted through every crack the s and doors afforded
”No port to-day,” said Dave; and he was right To run close to the Norwegian coast in such a high wind, and with so erous, and they had to reer at the entrance to Christiania Fjord--_fjord_ being the local na down and the wind subsided a little, and the steamer headed up the bay to Drobak, located on the east shore of the harbor Here there was a good deal of floating ice, and plowing a it were vessels of all kinds and sizes, all covered with ice and snow
”It's wintry enough up here, goodness knows,” reer ”I wonder how far north Christiania is?”
”I was looking it up on the rees north, which is just about the latitude of the lower coast of Greenland”
”What, as far north as that! No wonder it is cold”