That night Elizabeth lay awake.  She had cried in her sleep, and had dreamed that she had seen Salve standing down at the quay so wretchedly clothed and so miserable, but too proud to ask assistance of any one, and that he had given her such a bitterly reproachful look; and she lay tossing about, unable to get the dream out of her head.  Presently there came the noise of a riotous mob outside, and she got up and went to the window.  The police were taking some one with them down the street.  As they passed, she saw by the light of the street-lamp for a moment that it was Salve.  He was resisting with all his might, pale and infuriated, with his blue shirt all torn open in the front, and there was an expression in his face that—­at any rate, she slept no more that night.

There had been a general melee, she heard next morning, among the sailors over in Mother Andersen’s, on the other side of the harbour.  It was said that knives had been used, and that Salve 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.

Captain Beck had paid Salve’s fine and procured his release, and the afternoon before the Juno was to sail his father and younger brother came on board to say good-bye to him.  There was something strange in his manner that struck them both; it was as if he thought he would never see them again.  He offered his father his hundred-daler note, and when the latter would not take it, made him promise, at all events, to keep it for him.  The father attributed his unusual manner to distress of mind and depression on account of his recent adventure with the police; but as he was going ashore he said, in rather a husky voice—­

“Remember, Salve, that you have an old father expecting you at home!”

That evening and a great part of the night Salve passed in the Juno’s maintop, gazing over at Beck’s house as long as there was a light in the attic window.  And when that went out it seemed as if something had been extinguished in himself with it.

CHAPTER X.

The outer side of Tromoe, which lies off the entrance to Arendal, has only the ordinary barren stone-grey appearance of the rest of the islands along the coast; a wooden church, with a little belfry like a sentry-box and serving as a landmark, which lies drearily down by the sea, and under which on Sundays a pilot-boat or two may be seen lying-to while service is going on, is the only feature for the eye to rest upon.  The land side of the island, on the contrary, presents a scene all the richer and livelier for the contrast.  The narrow Tromoe Sound, with its swarm of small coasters, lighters, pilot-boats, and vessels of larger build,