Part 3 (1/2)
”Is there no end to it?” wondered Tad Butler, gazing at the scenery until his eyes ached
”It is all very wonderful,” agreed Professor Zepplin
”I call it tireso exciting”
Ned suggested that he jump overboard Stacy replied that he would were it not that he didn't want to put his co scenery continued at intervals until the evening of the second day after their unsuccessful atte through Frederick Sound, bordered by spire-shaped glaciers that towered in the sky, pale and chaste, more than two thousand feet above the sound Darkness fell, the sky being overcast, and the air chill, giving the passengers the shi+vers and sending them to their cabins below Tad Butler and Ned Rector had clambered to the top of the deck-house and settled themselves between the two smokestacks It was a nice warm berth and they appreciated it They seemed far away fro to tell ,” Ned reminded his companion, after a few moht You remember that remark of the skipper's the other day, don't you?”
”About what?”
”What he said about 'Red Whiskers'?”
”Yes”
”I have the gentleman located, Ned I am reasonably certain that I have
Of course it's none of my business, but I have been curious ever since the Captain said that My ular corin
”There are several men on board this boat ear red upholstery on their chins,” averred Rector
”I know that, but this one is the fellow, all right,” declared Tad in a confident tone
”You know so!” exclaiht hear I heard soo”
”No one down there could distinguish ere saying,” answered Ned, as the two drew back farther between the steel bases of the two funnels
”Well?” urged Ned
”The man referred to by Captain Petersen is Sandy Ketcham, the tall, lank felloith the squinty eyes and the stoop shoulders He has a trick of peering up from under his eyelids when he looks at you”
”Oh! I know the one you mean, and I don't like his looks How did you know?”
”Since the Captainan interest in every man on the boat ore red whiskers,” said Tad ”I tried to decide, in ht one”
”So did I,” adot all ht one you are hty sharp I wish I were as keen as you”
”Keen? Not a bit of it! It was a pure accident that I found out I just blundered on the truth last night Theht You reht at the rear end of the boat when you went down late last evening?”
”Yes Chunky was half asleep”
”Exactly Well, I shook hi because I wouldn't let him sleep when he was so comfortable
He was liable to catch cold in the damp air Then I went to sleep myself,” admitted Butler ”I'ed Rector