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Two days later Dick Jervoise called upon Captain Berentsen and his daughter at the house in Talbot Road, Bayswater, where they had established themselves in apartments. The first-floor rooms of the usual London lodging type had been recommended to them by some friends in Christiania, and as Dick was shown up by the maid-of-all-work he greeted Thyra, in pretence that they had not already met in secret.
The old captain invited him to remain and have tea. They expected to stay in London for a month at least, he said-indeed, until the long Arctic night at Vardo had passed, when they would return to their treeless coast again.