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Elizabeth made no further observation, but a certain expression about her mouth seemed to denote that she reserved to herself the liberty to have an opinion of her own in this matter. Salvé Kristiansen had been very dear to her as the only friend and confidant she had ever had; but since she had seen the lieutenant, it had been he who had exclusively occupied her thoughts.
"But who are you?" she asked; and then, as if the thought had suddenly flashed upon her, she said, "It's never Salvé Kristiansen, who " She stopped here, and Salvé dryly finished the sentence for her "Who deserted from Beck at Rio? the same."
Elizabeth used to talk to them as countrymen of her own; and if she heard that any of them had been across the Atlantic, she would quietly, and as if quite casually, ask if perchance they had come across or had heard anything of a sailor of her acquaintance called Salvé Kristiansen who hailed from Arendal.
It remained attached by a couple of ropes, and with the heavy sea that was running, was swinging backwards and forwards, as it hung, against the lower rigging, threatening to destroy it. Salvé Kristiansen had come forward in the emergency and ventured aloft to cut it adrift; and as he sat there the whole had gone over the side.
When the sea is too rough to board a vessel in any other way, they do not think twice about taking a line round their waist and jumping overboard; and when it is a point of honour with them to bring in a ship, boat and home and life weigh but very little in the opposite scale. The black-bearded Salvé Kristiansen soon came to be the best known in Arendal of them all.
He explained to her that people of his class were not in the habit of marrying a common man's child, although it happened far too often that they might play at love with them. "Such a lad as Salvé Kristiansen, now," he remarked, in conclusion, "that is the sort of stuff that will not disappoint you;" and he thought he had played the diplomatist there with some skill.
But in the mean time the gleam of light shone forth again whatever might have been the cause of its obscuration and that night Salvé Kristiansen brought the Juno safely into Merdö. Out on Little Torungen meanwhile noteworthy events had occurred, which were now the talk of the town. Old Jacob had had a stroke the week before, and had died the same night the Juno had had her wrestle for life.
It was said that knives had been used, and that Salvé Kristiansen had been the originator of the whole disturbance without a shadow of protest, Carl Beck said; and proceeded then to put various interpretations of his own upon the affair. Elizabeth left the room, and for some days after was pale and worn-looking, and more than usually reserved, Carl thought, in her attitude towards himself.
Before leaving the vessel Salvé placed his silver watch, on which he had scratched with the point of his knife, "In remembrance of Salvé Kristiansen," in the waistcoat pocket of Nils, who was snoring loud and long in his hammock alongside; and then, unobserved by the watch on deck, the two friends clambered over to the quay in the silent night by means of the shore rope, and disappeared at once into the darkness of the neighbouring alleys.
"Ay, and he wrote a testimonial from himself underneath. I hadn't an idea that I was such a fine fellow," he laughed. "You see," she cried, looking at him proudly, "it comes at last. He acknowledges it now." "Well, if we don't manage the thing that way, Salvé Kristiansen will be able nevertheless to work it out of his own pocket for worked it shall be, mind you.
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