"I don't think he would accept it?"
"Nor do I. And yet I must do something. What would you suggest?"
"Wait till you get home and then send them all a good present."
"I'll do it. You don't find men like them very often."
It had been arranged that the boys were to leave the next day. Now that the captain was well out of danger they felt that they must not delay longer and the doctor was to take them back to the little town thirty miles down the coast, where they could get a train for Seattle.
CHAPTER IV.
THE BOYS START AGAIN FOR ALASKA.
"Well, we're off again."
It was two days after they had left the log cabin by the sea and the steamer, on which they had, for the second time, engaged passage, was drawing slowly away from the wharf.
"And here's hoping we have better luck than last time," Bob returned and he leaned over the rail. "But I might as well confess that I feel a bit squeemish."