"Do you know of a man we can get?"
"Not personally, but I know a fellow up there who will know where to get the right man and I'll attend to it."
"That's very good of you, and—"
"Good nothing," the captain interrupted. "You forget what I owe you two boys."
It was late in the afternoon when, a few days later, the ship steamed up to her wharf at Nome.
"My, it's quite some city," Jack declared as he stood with Bob and the captain in the pilot house.
"Largest in Alaska," the captain assured them.
"What's the population?" Bob asked.
"It was about 2,600 the last census and I guess it hasn't changed much since."
The captain had invited them to remain on board as his guests while the ship remained in port instead of going to a hotel and they had been glad to accept the invitation.