it was Salvé. 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 _mêlée_, 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 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.

Captain Beck had paid Salvé'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, Salvé, that you have an old father expecting you at home!"

That evening and a great part of the night Salvé 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.