“What time is it?” inquired Dame Hansen, shaking the ashes from her pipe, the last curling rings from which were slowly disappearing between the stained rafters overhead. “Eight o’clock, mother,” repl...

Dal is a modest hamlet consisting of but a few houses; some on either side of a road that is little more than a bridle-path, others scattered over the surrounding hills. But they all face the narrow v...

Without being very deeply versed in ethnography, one may be strongly inclined to believe, in common with many savants, that a close relationship exists between the leading families of the English aris...

Ole Kamp had been absent a year; and as he said in his letter, his winter’s experience on the fishing banks of Newfoundland had been a severe one. When one makes money there one richly earns it. The e...

Hulda was considerably surprised at the persistency with which Ole alluded in his letters to the fortune that was to be his on his return. Upon what did the young man base his expectations? Hulda coul...

“Is this Dame Hansen’s inn?” he asked. “Yes, sir,” answered Hulda. “Is Dame Hansen at home?” “No; but she will soon return, and if you wish to speak to her⁠—” “I do not. There is nothing I want to say...

It was on the afternoon of the following day that Joel was to return home; and Hulda, who knew that her brother would come back by the tablelands of the Gousta and along the left bank of the Maan, wen...

The brother and sister left the inn at sunrise the next morning. The fifteen-mile walk from Dal to the celebrated falls of the Rjukan, and back again, was a mere trifle for Joel, but it was necessary ...

Sylvius Hogg was the name that the stranger inscribed upon the inn register, that same evening, directly underneath the name of Sandgoist, and there was as great a contrast between the two names as be...

The people of Scandinavia are very intelligent, not only the inhabitants of the cities, but of the most remote rural districts. Their education goes far beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic. The pe...

Joel then proceeded to relate Ole Kamp’s whole history. Sylvius Hogg, deeply moved, listened to the recital with profound attention. He knew all now. He even read Ole’s letter announcing his speedy re...

So this was the young man’s secret! This was the source from which he expected to derive a fortune for his promised bride⁠—a lottery ticket, purchased before his departure. And as the Viking was going...

Meanwhile, Sylvius Hogg was hastening toward Bergen. His tenacious nature and energetic character, though daunted for a moment, were now reasserting themselves. He refused to credit Ole’s death, nor w...

The day that Sylvius Hogg left Bergen proved an eventful one at the inn. After the professor’s departure the house seemed deserted. It almost seemed as if the kind friend of the young Hansens had take...

Sylvius Hogg reached Dal on the evening of the following day. He did not say a word about his journey, and no one knew that he had been to Bergen. As long as the search was productive of no results he...

The next morning Foreman Lengling’s gayly painted karjol bore away Sylvius Hogg and Hulda, seated comfortably side by side. There was not room for Joel, as we know already, so the brave fellow trudged...

Christiania, though it is the largest city in Norway, would be considered a small town in either England or France; and were it not for frequent fires, the place would present very much the same appea...

“Good morning, Mr. Benett. It is always a great pleasure to me when I have an opportunity to shake hands with you.” “And for me, professor, it is a great honor.” “Honor, pleasure⁠—pleasure, honor,” la...

What a crowd filled the large hall of the University of Christiana in which the drawing of the great lottery was to take place⁠—a crowd that overflowed into the very courtyards, as even the immense bu...

Yes; it was Ole Kamp! Ole Kamp, who, by a miracle, had survived the shipwreck of the Viking. The reason the Telegraph had not brought him back to Europe can be easily explained. He was no longer in th...