four in the morning
remarked the latter . `` It 's my opinion it 's been daylight all night , for it surely was n't dark when we retired , and we 've only been in bed a few minutes . '' The scene was the outside cabin deck of the well-appointed steamer `` Queen '' of the Alaska Steamship Company , which was plowing her way through the quiet waters of the `` Inside Passage , '' on her way to the land of the Yukon and the Klondike . The hour was only four in the morning , but the sun was high , and the day in those high latitudes was well begun . `` No regrets , Don , you sleepyhead , '' said Gerald . `` You 've already had seven hours ' sleep , and on this trip one ought not to go to bed at all . '' By this time , Jack had succeeded in arousing his brother , Pepper Blake , and the latter 's bunk mate , Dick Wilson , who gazed out a little resentfully , as they threw back the sash , but whose faces quickly brightened at the scene that met their eyes .