Chapter 1. The Start For The Midnight Sun
_ CHAPTER I. THE START FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN
"Well, fellows," said Jesse Wilcox, the youngest of the three boys who stood now at the ragged railway station of Athabasca Landing, where they had just disembarked, "here we are once more. For my part, I‘m ready to start right now."
He spoke somewhat pompously for a youth no more than fifteen years of age. John Hardy and Rob McIntyre, his two companions, somewhat older than himself, laughed at him as he sat now on his pack-bag, which had just been tossed off the baggage-car of the train that had brought them hither.
"You might wait for Uncle Dick," said John. "He‘d feel pretty bad if we started off now for the Arctic Circle and didn‘t allow him to come along!"
Rob, the older of the three, and the one to whom they were all in the habit of looking up in their wilderness journeyings, smiled at them both. He was not apt to talk very much in any case, and he seemed now content in these new s

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