Yes; and I spoke to young Fru Beck too." "Salve! did you go to Beck ?" "Yes, I did--the boy must be pushed; and into the bargain, I half begged his pardon for the way I used to turn the rough edge of my tongue on him--and so we were reconciled.

He is a fine old fellow in reality, and I have wronged him.

He said he had never forgotten that I had saved the Juno for him, and that he had intended to put me one day in command of her.

While we were talking, young Fru Beck came in, and when she heard what we were speaking about, she showed the greatest interest at once.
You were an old friend of hers, she said; and she thought we might get Gjert into the Institute there free, when he had been up for an examination in the summer.

She knew some of the officials who would be able to get it done; and if the Master wrote," he continued, a little consciously, "that I was neither more nor less than a remarkable pilot who ought to be salaried by the State, the thing would be as good as done.