Part 29 (2/2)
”Don't forget, Roger, that Norway is the Land of the Midnight Sun At the far north they have a night lasting about three ht as that, just yet”
”No--you rinned
”Oh, cut that out!” and the face of the senator's son grew red
”I shan't ain”
Drobak is but a s less than twenty-five hundred inhabitants, but during the winter all the shi+pping of the fjord congregates there, and as a consequence the scene was a lively one The boys were quickly landed, and then froet a train running to the capital Their baggage had been examined and passed upon by the usual custom officials
”Well, this is certainly a second-rate railroad,” was Dave's comment, as they seated themselves in the stuffy coach and had the door locked upon them Then the trainto both With half a dozen stops, it took thehteenout of the , the landscape was a dreary one, of marshland on one side and rocks on the other, all covered with ice and snow The coach had no heat in it, and Roger declared that his feet were half frozen
”Puts me in mind of the time I visited a lumber camp in upper Maine,” he told his chum ”It was in the winter-tiht and a co else We were delayed on the road, almost snowed in, and I didn't thaw out for a week afterwards”
At the railroad station in Christiania they had soe was looked over, and they were taken to an office and asked a dozen or ht be a police-inspector What it was all about they could not make out, but at first the officer was not inclined to let theo back to where you came from,” said the man to Dave
”Why, what's the trouble?” de”
”What brought you to Norway?”
”I a for my father His name is David Porter, like my own He has joined the Lapham-Hausermann Expedition, bound for the interior of Norway”
”Exactly,” and the officer looked wise ”Who is this youngwithalone”
”I can't help that I want to findyou?”
”I don't know I sent hiram, but I do not know if he received it”
”That expedition--do you know anything about it?” asked the officer, shrewdly
”No, sir--nothing lish papers”
”Didn't your father tell you anything about it?”
”No, he couldn't” And Dave hesitated