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Updated: May 12, 2025
In notes and money, George's savings amounted to more than thirteen pounds. "Pretty well, my dear," said the Cheap Jack, grinning hideously. "And now for the letter. Read it aloud, Sal, my dear; you're a better scholar than me." Sal opened the thin, well-worn sheet, and read the word "Moerdyk," but then she paused.
"The railroad stops at a place called Moerdyk, and there we take a steamer and go along some of the rivers. "But I can't find out by the map exactly how we are to go," he continued, "because there are so many rivers." Rollo had found, by the map, that the country all about Rotterdam was intersected by a complete network of creeks and rivers.
Passengers from Antwerp come by railroad to Moerdyk, and there take the steamer to Rotterdam. This country is very favorable to railroads in being level, but very unfavorable in the number of rivers and cut-offs to be crossed, which it is impossible to bridge."
That mysterious word and George's evident displeasure worried him, and he was troubled also by the unusual fretfulness of the little Jan, and the sound of sorrow in his baby wail. His last waking thoughts were a strange mixture, passing into stranger dreams. The word Moerdyk danced before his eyes, but brought no meaning with it.
Abel went to school again in the spring, and, though George would have been better pleased had he forgotten the whole affair, he remembered the word in George's young woman's love-letter which had puzzled him; and never was a spelling-lesson set him among the M's that he did not hope to come across it and to be able to demand the meaning of Moerdyk from his Dame.
When at length the train stopped at Moerdyk, the conductor called out from the platform that all the passengers would descend from the carriages to embark on board the steamer. Rollo was too much interested in making the change, and in hurrying Mr. George along so as to get a good seat in the steamer, to make any observation on the comparative level of the land and water.
"The helmsman stands on a raised platform, and his wheel revolves horizontally." "All the Rhine steamers have that arrangement." "I think a wheel-house forward is ever so much better. I see the cook is a woman." "Yes; all the Rhine steamers have female cooks. This boat, I believe, belongs to the Moerdyk line.
It would be as difficult to make a railroad over such a tract of mingled land and water as this, as it is easy to navigate a steamer through it; and, accordingly, the owners of the line had made arrangements for stopping the trains at Moerdyk, and then transferring the passengers to a steamer.
The sky, gradually, unwillingly, became serene, and on a sudden the waters and the banks were clothed once more in fresh glowing colors: it was summer again. In a little while the vessel reached the village of Moerdyk, where one of the largest bridges in the world is to be seen. It is an iron structure a mile and a half long, over which passes the railway to Dordrecht and Rotterdam.
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