. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. Badweather set in and luck seemedentirely to have left them, sothat every one was glad when the cap-tain set sail for home, saying that hewould sell out the catch as it was andreturn in time for another haul, if fort-une favored and Louise were glad to have the boys at home again, even fora few days, for it is dull enough in such a village when all the men areon the sea. They put on their best clothes, and Scott and Roy dressedas though they never had been sailors, and with games and picnics thedays flew swiftly th
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. Badweather set in and luck seemedentirely to have left them, sothat every one was glad when the cap-tain set sail for home, saying that hewould sell out the catch as it was andreturn in time for another haul, if fort-une favored and Louise were glad to have the boys at home again, even fora few days, for it is dull enough in such a village when all the men areon the sea. They put on their best clothes, and Scott and Roy dressedas though they never had been sailors, and with games and picnics thedays flew swiftly that had dragged so slowly before. But the boys hada burden upon their minds that, from being a pleasure at first, became atormenting pain with long keeping. Day after day they waited and wondered why Captain Downing didnot tell the good news to Mrs. Lester, when they would tell the girlshow they had known it all the time. One afternoon Roy borrowed a boat of one of the neighbors, andwhile the skipper lay smoking in the prow, he and Louise sailed upand down the ROYAL SAR
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