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..