complete fit-out from the
merchant's stores, and although Godfrey's garments would scarcely have
passed muster in London, they did very well for the voyage. Luka was
greatly amused at his own appearance in European garb, though Godfrey
thought he looked much better in his Ostjak costume.

"We will rig him out fresh when I get him home," he said to the
merchant. "I don't know what he looks like now in that greatcoat and
billycock hat."

The merchant stayed on board until the last moment. As soon as he got
into his boat the paddles began to revolve and the steamer started on
her way. She was ten days on her voyage, ascending many of the fiords,
landing or taking on board cargo or passengers.

Godfrey enjoyed the voyage greatly. The scenery was magnificent, and
eagerly as he desired to be at home, he was almost sorry when the end
approached. It had been so strange to have nothing to do but to sit and
watch the shore, to eat and to sleep. Luka had been very penitent over
his little excess at Vadsoe, and had solemnly promised Godfrey to abstain
from spirits in future; and he, too, enjoyed the voyage in his way,
eating enormously, and drinking vast quantities of tea and coffee.
Godfrey had sent off one or two telegrams from the ports at which he
touched, so that his father might be able to judge when the ship was
likely to arrive; and when one morning early the vessel steamed up to
the wharf at Hamburg Godfrey saw him waiting there. It was a joyful
meeting indeed, and it was not until they were alone together at an
hotel, Luka being left down-stairs in charge of the canoe, that they
were enabled to begin to talk.

"Did you know what had become of me, father?"

"Yes, my boy. Petrovytch telegraphed to me that you had been missing
three days, and I at once went over to St. Petersburg. He thought that
you had fallen into bad hands, and had been murdered and thrown into the
Neva; but remembering that you had got into that silly scrape before
with the police, I thought it possible that, coming, as your absence
did, directly after the affair at the Winter Palace, suspicion had
fallen on you again. I went to the head of the police; he declined to
give me any information. Then I set the embassy at work, and they found
out that you had been arrested with some desperate Nihilists. At last
they obtained a sight of the records of the court-martial before which
you had been tried, and told me that the case was so strong against you
t