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"But what a cheek he has to ask you to go on such a journey!" cried Mark. "He talks as though he expected you to start immediately for the Arctic Circle." "There would be good hunting up there in the mountains," said Andy Sudds, succinctly. "I wouldn't mind that." "An'disher chrysomela-bypunktater plant he wants," grunted Washington. "Hi, yi! ain't dat de beatenest thing?
"I got me a dude comin' in on the train," addressing Sudds. "Could you fix a place for him to eat? The train bein' late like this, he won't git any supper otherwise. I wasn't expectin' of him for a month yet." With an invitation thus publicly requisitioned, as it were, there was no alternative but to assent.
To Washington was entrusted the task of preparing the food supply, since he was to act as cook. Andy Sudds was instructed to look after the clothing and other supplies, except those of a scientific nature, while the two young men were to act as general helpers to the two professors.
"How do you like it?" asked the professor. "Great!" exclaimed Jack. "Fine!" cried Mark. "It am simply coslostrousness!" exploded Washington. "'Nebber in all my born days did I eber expansionate on such a sight!" "Wish I had a fishing pole and line," remarked Andy Sudds. "There's some pretty nice specimens out there."
I'se done shot!" bawled the darkey, and sprang into Jack's arms. The boy hung on to him or perhaps Wash would still be running, he was so scared. Nor were the other members of the party much less startled. But Andy Sudds was as steady as a rock. His first ball had hit the huge beast in the breast, but the latter had plunged forward after the escaping darkey as the ball struck him.
The interior had been quite dark up to this point, which accounted for them not having noticed the ship before. But when they saw the strange affair so close beneath them they were startled. "Jumpin' rattlesnakes!" cried Andy Sudds. "What have I struck?" "It's a yellow elephant!" exclaimed Tom Jones. "A sea serpent!" ejaculated Bill Smith.
The wall of ice on the other side of the crevasse began to glisten, and soon streams of water were trickling down it, falling with a gentle murmur into the abyss. The workers threw off some of their heavy clothing. The sun's rays began to creep down the other wall, and the ice melted rapidly. Jack and Mark took the places of Andy Sudds and Mr. Roebach with the hatchets.
It was that of rather an aged man, who walked with soft, cat-like tread, and who leaned forward, as if on the trail of some enemy or wild beast. His eyes were bright, however, in spite of his age. "Andy Sudds!" exclaimed Jack. "I was wondering where you were." "Well, snap my gunlock, if it isn't Jack Darrow!" exclaimed Andy. "Any luck?" asked Mark, for he knew the old man must have been hunting.
It was whispered that Mrs. Abram Pantin, wife of the wealthy capitalist from Keokuk, now "settled in their midst," was to be seen in electric blue silk with real lace collar and cuffs; while Mrs. Sudds, wife of a near-governor, who had moved to Prouty from another part of the state, was to appear in her lansdowne wedding dress. Mrs.
Gathering herself, she was able to chirp: "This is a surprise!" "You know my daughter, of course?" to Mrs. Sudds, whose jaw had dropped, so that she stood slightly open-mouthed, arrayed in a frock made in the fashion of the Moyen age and recently handed down from a great-uncle's relict who had passed on.
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