The bear rolled over backward, instantly dead. Frank, overjoyed, staggered to Barney’s side.
“Thank God! you were not killed after all, Barney!”
“Shure, I came near enough to it, sor, but not so near as you.”
“Let us get away from this accursed place at once. Let us go back to the Explorer.”
They started upon the return.
But somehow none of the passages seemed the same.
The further they went the more bewildered they became.
“Shure, sor, it’s lost I am intoirely!” cried Barney. “Arrah, an’ it was a bad toime that we iver came aboard this accursed berg!”
“You are right!” cried Frank. “It is a lesson to us. But I never had any idea before that anybody could ever get so completely lost on an iceberg.”
“Shure, sor, it seems to be a very simple matther.”