"This is about the limit!" laughed Bob Jarvis. "Here I am, without any eyebrows and half my beautiful locks burned away, all because you and I have ambitions to get on in the world. Honestly, Steve, is it worth it?"
"You know it is, Bob Jarvis," answered the Iron Boy, gazing straight into the inflamed, soot-framed eyes of his companion.
CHAPTER V
TROUBLE IN THE STOKE HOLE
"I'LL put you to sleep one of these fine days, young feller," greeted the stoker with whom Steve had had the words. The boys had just turned to go to their bath, Bob already having entered the deck house.
"Are you addressing me?" demanded Steve coldly.
"I'm talking to you."
"Forget it," said the lad, brushing past the soot-begrimed stoker and hurrying in to his bath.