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If the pupils had been quick to recognize him, although they had never seen him before, it had been different with the instructor, whose acquaintance with him dated further back. "Ah! good-day, my dear Malarius!" said the visitor cordially, advancing with outstretched hands toward the school-master.
The fiord had hardly resumed its ordinary placidity, after the passage of the hurricane, when they borrowed a boat of one of their neighbors, in order to go in search of him. Mr. Malarius insisted upon accompanying the young men upon their expedition, and they all three set out, anxiously watched by Katrina and her daughter.
"Where did you learn all this, my dear child?" he demanded, after a short silence. "Here, sir," answered Erik, surprised at the question. "You have never studied in any other school?" "Certainly not." "Mr. Malarius may be proud of you, then," said the doctor, turning toward the master. "I am very well satisfied with Erik," said the latter. "He has been my pupil for eight years.
But it is not an hour since I took supper with Mr. Malarius, and I certainly would not have called so early if I had thought you would be at the table. It would give me great pleasure if you would resume your seats and eat your supper." "Oh, doctor!" implored the good wife, "at least you will not refuse some 'snorgas' and a cup of tea?"
But what astonished and disappointed the pupils a little was to discover that the doctor was a man below the ordinary height, and not the giant which they had imagined him to be. How could such an illustrious man be satisfied with a height of only five feet three inches? His gray head hardly reached the shoulder of Mr. Malarius, and he was already stooping with age.
"I promised my friend Malarius to dine with him, and he is waiting for me. Little girl," he said, laying his hand gently upon Vanda's blonde head, "I hope you do not wish me any harm because I am taking your brother away from you?" "No, doctor," she answered gravely. "Erik will be happier with you he was not intended to live in a village."
"What has happened?" replied Erik. "My dear master, the 'Alaska' has been cast upon breakers, and the captain has killed himself!" "Oh!" said Mr. Malarius, overcome with surprise. "Then, my dear child, adieu to our expedition!" "That is another affair," said Erik. "I am not dead, and as long as a spark of life remains in me, I shall say, 'Go forward!"
Malarius, the public teacher of Noroe, and laureate of the Botanical Society. It contained a check for one hundred kroners, and begged that he might be attached to the expedition as the assistant naturalist of the "Alaska." The other contained a check for twenty-five thousand kroners, with this laconic note: "For the voyage of the 'Alaska, from Mr.
"So our Vanda has become so learned, has she?" he replied with interest, while the young girl blushed up to the roots of her hair at these maternal praises. "She has learned to play the organ also, and Mr. Malarius says that she has the sweetest voice of all the choir?"
He was not surprised, when three days after his conversation with Erik, he received the following letter, which he lost no time in carrying to the house of Mr. Hersebom. The letter read as follows: "STOCKHOLM, March 17th. "MY DEAR MR. MALARIUS, I thank you cordially for informing me of the disastrous consequences of the cyclone of the 3d of March to the worthy Mr. Hersebom.
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