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Though he owned factories and hotels and many other things, yet he seemed to take the greatest pride of all in possessing a couple of children. One of the men from Bergen struck his glass for silence, and began to make a speech. The Bergensians had all long been very quiet and retiring, but here was a perfect occasion for making speeches.
Not unfrequently they went half-way to meet the postman. Everybody was deeply interested, for the Hansen family was exceedingly popular in the neighborhood; and poor Ole was almost a child of the Telemark. But no letter came from Bergen or Christiania giving news of the absent one. Nothing new occurred on the sixteenth. Sylvius Hogg could scarcely restrain his restlessness.
"We saw you come down to the quay with Mynheer Von Duyk and his daughter. Our boat lay next to the boat you went by." "That is so," Hugh said. "Are you going to Bergen? We have enough dollars left to pay our passage." "You would be welcome in any case," the boatman said. "Hans Petersen is not a man to bargain with shipwrecked men. But go below. There is a fire there.
Sixty-seven miles of the line between Bergen and Vose, on the western coast, is already in operation, and it is a favorite journey of tourists, for the scenery is superb, although the traveler is in a tunnel one-tenth of the entire distance. There are forty-eight tunnels in all. A shelf has been hewn and blasted along the side of the mountains that encloses the celebrated Sorfjord.
"Then you have mine also, dear child," said the doctor, and he took his departure. The next morning when the sleigh stopped before the door of Mr. Hersebom little Vanda held the reins according to her desire, seated upon the front seat. She was going to drive them to the next village, where the doctor would procure another horse and sleigh, and thus procure relays until he reached Bergen.
The boys climbed up into the tops, and thence could see a wide extent of country dotted with villages stretching beyond the banks, which restricted their view from the decks. In five hours Bergen op Zoom came in sight, and they presently dropped anchor opposite the town. The boat was lowered, and the two officers with the lads were rowed ashore.
Maurice next spent a few days in reducing the castle of Wouda, not far from Bergen, and then, transporting his army once more to the isle of Cadzand, he established his headquarters at Watervliet, near Ysendyke. Spinola followed him, having thrown a bridge across the Scheld. Maurice was disposed to reduce a fort, well called Patience, lying over against the isle of Walcheren.
Bergen and Montigny confirmed this by the accounts they sent home from Madrid of the alteration in the manner with which they were treated by Philip and his courtiers; and the Prince of Orange was more firmly decided in his opinions of the coming vengeance of the tyrant.
Miss Bergen shook her head with great vigor. "Nonsense," she said, cheerfully. "You are not going to die. As soon as we move you out of this rain, and some food cook " "Good God!" cried the young Doctor, savagely. "Do you want to kill him?" When she spoke, the patient had thrown his arms heavily across his face, and had fallen back, lying rigid on the pillow.
I heard the acclamation, and did not think King was well enough to pay attention to the observations of D , or the reply of the sailors; but he must have also heard the shout for he said to me, "What is that they say, Sir?" "Only," I replied, "that the men are determined to brave the gale, and mean to beat round under the lee of the island into the Bergen Fiord."
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