“That’s worth some trouble to come and see!” said Captain Marsham.
“Worth trouble?” cried Steve, whose heart was swelling with delight and the words he wanted to say. “Oh!”
That ejaculation contained all. It was very short, but it meant everything; and it was some time before he woke up to the knowledge of what he was gazing at and what was being done.
It was with quite a start that he turned on being touched upon the shoulder, and found Dr Handscombe at his side.
“Well, Steve boy,” said the doctor, “what do you think of Jan Mayen?”
“Is this Jan Mayen—the island?”
“Yes.”
“Beautiful! lovely! What a place to live in!”
“Delightful!” said the doctor drily. “Not a tree hardly a green thing, eternal ice and snow!”
“Oh, but it’s dazzling, lovely!”