the handsome young officer who had sat there by
the fire. And many a time would she conjure up his form on the bench
again--particularly as he looked when he held up his glass and glanced
over to her while he sang--

"Hurrah! then, boys, for the one of your mind,
That never, oh, never, you'll leave behind."

Subsequently to this, Carl Beck made repeated excursions out to Torungen
to shoot sea-birds, and, by preference, alone in his sailing-boat. But,
whether it was an instinct or not on her side, it happened somehow that
he never had any further conversation with her without the old man being
with them.

CHAPTER VI.

The Juno arrived in due course at Boston, where Salve invested a
considerable portion of his wages in the material for a dress, a couple
of silk handkerchiefs, and two massive rings with his own and
Elizabeth's initials on them.

From Boston she proceeded to Grimsby with a Canadian cargo; then on a
short trip to Liverpool; then back to Quebec; and some ten or eleven
months after leaving Arendal, they were on a voyage from Memel in the
Baltic to New York, with a cargo of timber, planks, and pipe-staves--the
intention being to call in at the home port, for which she had some
general cargo, to take in provisions.

During these voyages Salve, as one may say, had completed his
apprenticeship to the sea; and in his blue shirt loosely knotted round
the throat, his leather belt and canvas trousers, he had such a look of
smartness and energy that it required no very great amount of
discernment to perceive in him a sailor from top to toe. He had, sooner
than most, risen superior to the dangers and temptations to which young
sailor lads are exposed during the years of their novitiate, and with a
break-neck recklessness of disposition he combined such a perfectly
cat-like activity, that his superior smartness was recognised even among
his comrades. His bearing, it is true, was rather arrogant, and his
tongue not the most good-natured; but he was generally liked
nevertheless, for he was kind-hearted, if he was only taken on the right
side, and it did not seem to be his sailor-like qualities upon which he
prided himself so much as upon the superior acuteness of his
understanding, which he delighted to display in discussions with the
red-bearded and somewhat consequential sailmaker, who had the reputation
of being a well-read man, and who affected a proportionate importance.

Up at Memel they ha