the midnight sun
`` And the sun looks as if it were just going to set in the wrong place , sir . '' `` Yes , my lad ; but it is not going to set . In another quarter of an hour it will be at its lowest point , and then begin to rise higher and travel apparently eastward to the south . You wanted to see the midnight sun . There it is ; but I hope you 'll see it to greater perfection when we get farther north . '' `` Yes ; but wo n't it set at all ? '' cried Steve .