"No.

I should get a passage in a coaster and walk all the rest of the way." "I mean cost of energy: the risks, the arduous labours ?" "Oh, yes," I said; "and I sha'n't mind.

Father would have done the same if I was lost." "Of course he would, my lad; but would you go alone ?" "Oh, no," I replied, "I should take a guide." "Ah, yes; a good guide and companion." "There, Master Joseph, you hear," said nurse.

"Doctor Grant means that sarcastical." "No, I do not, nurse," said the doctor quietly; "for I think it a very brave and noble resolve on the part of our young friend." "Doctor!" "It has troubled me this year past that no effort has been made to find the professor, who, I have no doubt, is somewhere in the interior of the island, and I have been for some time making plans to go after him myself." Nurse Brown's jaw dropped, and she stared in speechless amazement.
"Hurray, doctor!" I cried.
"And I say hurray too, Joe," he cried.

"I'll go with you, my lad, and we'll bring him back, with God's help, safe and sound." The shout I gave woke Jimmy, who sprang to his feet, dragged a boomerang from his waistband, and dashed to the door to throw it at somebody, and then stopped.
"You'll break his mother's heart, doctor," sobbed nurse.