this earth; you'll be always doubting, always listening to folks' talk.
With the thoughts you have now in your mind, you have at any rate no
business any longer inside my door. But there is one thing I'll ask of
you," she said, with a look of mildly impressive earnestness in her
strong, clever face. "I know Elizabeth's nature well, and don't you
attempt to approach her or try to win her as long as you have a trace of
those doubts about her in your heart--it would only bring unhappiness to
both of you."

He looked dejected; and as he said good-bye to her, offered to take her
hand. But she would not give it to him, and merely added instead--

"Remember that it is an old woman who has seen a good deal in the world
who tells you this."

He went away then; and while he was being rowed across to Sandvigen he
changed his mind again, and determined that his plan of plying to
Holland should be carried out.




CHAPTER XIX.


Skipper Garvloit, into whose family Elizabeth had come, occupied one of
the many-storeyed houses, with green window-shutters, narrow
entrance-doors, and polished brass knockers, after the usual Dutch
fashion, in the lively street leading down to the dock in Amsterdam,
with the canal on the other side, with its various bridges, and vessels