The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-04-05

proceed III the matter against the EnB
lishman? There are not, | suppose, suf-
fcient proofs to get a warrant OF ar
rest?"
mo, I am afraid not; and | haven't
got my plans quite ready yet But |
fancy we must content ourselves with
compelling him to give u a complete
, proof of Sigrid's innocence, and letting
him off from any further unpleasant
ness. 1t is hard; but Sigrid. is now
very nervous, and shudders at the
thought of appearing before the court,
and all that kind of thing, you know"
well, let us start tomorrow evening
on the west coast steamer. ! Shall be
ready. But are you sure to meet him
there ?"
Eyes, my agent in London writes that
he has already sailed from England in
his yacht Deeyhoand, and is bound for
the Ryfylke ford to fish for salman,
but in Stavanger he'll await a party
which will arrive here by mail steamer
in a few days
1t was on a morning in the beginning
of June that the steamer glided into
Stavanger harbor. We had had rain
and southerly wind the whole way, and
the night outside Jadren had been any
thing but pleasant, although neither
Monk nor | suffered from s~easickness.
Toward the morning, the wind sprung
around to the north, and drove rain,
fog, and clouds in front of it, out into
the North Sea. The sun shone on the
small ripping pillows, which merrily
splashed against the gaudily painted
coasting vessels and warehouses IN the
harbor.
Among the ships in the harbor, there
were two which attracted our atten-
ton. One was a pretty English cutter
her blue flag flying at her stern. She
had only one mast, although her tom
mage must have been about. fifty; but
the lofty lower mast and the big boom
betrayed that she, on this one mast,
could carry a sail, the mainsheet OF
which would be no easy matter to haul
in, when the wind had filled it. She
seemed to have a numerous crew in
proportion to her sixe-for six or eight
men were seen busily engaged in hoist
ing the wet sails to be dried. She was
riding by one of her anchors, and had
boats hanging on their davits while
only a small jolly-boat was lying at her
stern.
The other ship was painted light grey,
and had a large yellow funnel. The
Norwegian naval flag waved at the
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the name, Viking"
we are in luckl' exclaimed Monk.
There is the gunboat, Fixing. The
commander on board is Captain Hoist;
you know him. of course, Trygive
Hoist"
"Yes. know him but how can he
help? Surely you don't want to get
him to sink the Englishman? ?"
Not exactly that; but none the less
he will be of use to us"
Monk had again taken the lead. i
had sunk down into my modest role of
historian. and allowed him to have his
way.
Our first business. after leaving the
steamer. was to visit the gunboat and
ROI OdA ANoPN%to " ~ OlkltClS.
Monk went below into the captains
cabin, where they spent a quarter of
an hour together.
| knew they were good friends of old,
and | could very well understand he
wished to be alone with his friend and
inform him of the turn events had
taken. +,
Than ~ ,,an+ ~ o,d ,a
selves good time to visit the remarkable
cathedral and one or two other places
of interest.
Shall we visit MIR. Howell nowl" I
asked.
Yes, but not before twelve o'clock"
was Monks reply.
why notf"
Isn't it a fact that you love a bit of |
excitement"
Then you had better not ask any
further questions. and you will prob
ably have plenty of it."
At last it was twelve o'clock, and a
one-eyed. weather beaten boatman
rowed as out to the yacht.
Abaft the mast stood a tall, hand |
some mar with a heavy black mus
tache.
Monk was the first to go on board.
He went right up to the owner Of the
yacht--for it was he. / followed be-
hind.
Mr.. Howell-we must still call him
sold not appear particularly pleased
at the visit. He stepped back ~involun-
tarily, and his face became dark, but
only for a moment then he smiled and
exclaimed N good Norwegian =
What a surprised Have | at last
the pleasure of seeing you, after so
many years, Mr.. Monk"
eyes, the world contains many sur
prises, Mr.. Howell" was Monks dry
reply, while he did not appear to notice
the hand which the Englishman
stretched out to him. ALLOW me to
present an engineer friend. Mr.. Fred
erick Viller, MI. Howell"
The Englishman bowed stifly, and
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