At Oliver's suggestion, Rollo was director.
For more than an hour they continued their toil, in constructing the partition.

Jonas had given them no instructions about this; and they found it much more difficult than the walls, on account of the small, low door, which they had to make, to lead from one apartment into the other.
At last, as Oliver and Nathan were drawing through the outer door a small heap of loose snow, which they had gathered up from the floor of the inner room, Rollo followed them, shouting, as they emerged from the fort, "Done, boys, done!--Hurrah for Iceberg Castle!" "I wish Jonas was here now," said Oliver; "but I suppose it will be two or three hours before he can come down." "Can't we do something more ?" said Rollo.

"I wish we could put on a roof, before he comes." "I don't believe we can do that," said Oliver.
The boys walked in and out, and all around the fort, again and again, admiring its appearance, and thinking what else they could do.
"It wouldn't be a bad plan to have a king, as Nathan said, in our castle; would it, Oliver ?" said Rollo.
"Not at all," said Oliver.

"Let us make a king, or a giant, to keep the premises for us, when we are away." So saying, they all set to work rolling snow-balls to make him.
Oliver rolled up a huge mass, for his body, larger than they could at first get through the doors.
Rollo rolled one for his head, and Nathan made several small ones.
In one corner of the inner room, they laid a small platform, of several square, flat blocks of snow, for a throne, as Rollo called it; and here they placed his "Majesty." "It seems to me," said Oliver, "that the King of the Frozen Regions ought to have a crown and a court." No sooner said than done.

A little band of snow-balls, in double rows, soon encircled his brow, surmounted, too, with icicles and stalactites, which Nathan brought from the brook.
The opposite corners of the room were soon decorated with corresponding figures, whom Rollo introduced as Lord and Lady Frost.
He had scarcely pronounced the names, when Jonas walked in, to the surprise and great delight of the boys.
"Well done, boys," said Jonas; "I think you have followed directions this time.