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164 THE SKJUTS-BO#/".
changed our sligli# acquaintance into a more famfliar position.
By the grief which is now gnawing at my heart-strings, I shall
always remember that if was fo it tliat I am indebted for under-
standing you more thoroughly. God be with you, hi:iss Amelia."
A glow, like the slightly-tinged morning dawn, overspread
the cheeks of the girl, and the liand, which Ivar still held,
trembled violently, tte sought ber eye–he did hot wish fo
leave without a last look from ber–but Amelia, who felt that a
tear was about stealing through lier downcast eyelids, had hot
the courage fo raise them.
At this moment Borgenstierna said, in an almost sof# voice,
" Farewell Ammy, dear Ammy."
These familiar, sweet words, she could hot withstand longer;
ber look was almost lost in his earnest gaze–that was lier adieu.
We sliall now leave our mariners, driven a#vay by this storm
of life’s sorrows, fo look after the lieutenant-colonel, and
observe how he sails out of the port. A few days afterward he
was prepared for departure, when the following conversation
took place between him and his wife :
" Well, the devil ; now both are gone, and none of them bas
popped the question. What good does if do me now, that I
bave borrowed seven hundred rix-dolla.rs upon my estate, aside
from the debts which I bave contracted here ] and whether I
shall be able to repay them, is only known fo ttim who fceds the
birds beneath the sky. Who knows whether either of them
will ever be heard of again ? Goesse, that fool, bas certainly
written something about it, but that is very uncertain; and as
Borgenstierna is also about to departmas if he had corne here
for the sole purpose that we should play the sisters of charity to
his boy–my chances fo recover the sums wkich I bave expended,
with interest, are d#d small. Ite bas hot, by my soul, said
a word about returning–or bas he saîd so to you ?"
" lçot a word ; but I believe, nevertheless, that he will do so.
tIis grief, which was yet so newL #"
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