toddard hesitated before replying.
"Not far from here," he said at length, moving off. "Come, I'll show you."
But the professor stood firm on their narrow ledge.
"You must be crazy!" he exclaimed. "We'll have trouble enough now, getting back. It's practically dark already."
"Then what's the odds?" retorted the young geologist. "We've got all night."
"But our friends at Camp No. 4. Even now, they must think we are lost."
"Then further thought won't kill them. Besides, we'll be back before morning—and they can't send out a relief party sooner."
"But any moment a storm may come up. You know what that would mean."