“Yes.”
“Why you more than the rest of us?”
“It’s harder for me.”
“Well,” said the scientist, emphatically, “I can’t agree with you. Take my advice, Bell. Think less of yourself and you will be more cheerful.”
The captain did not see fit to reply to this shot, which was a telling and deserved one.
“Golly, Marse Frank!” cried Pomp, as he looked about, “I don’t fink we cud swim dat stretch berry easy.”
“No, I think not,” agreed Frank. “It is a little too vast.”
Then the situation was discussed.
“I don’t see that we have gained anything by this discovery,” said Von Bulow. “Have we?”
“Not a thing,” agreed Frank.