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ONLY A MONTH; OR, A CURIOUS MYSTERY EXPLAINED. rH. \ITKIi ll.--(Cont'd) Later on. when the whole party had started for a walk, and when Frithvf nnd Blanche had quite na- turally drifted into a tete-a-tete, sh<! ;-.'i;d something to this effect: "I begin not to wonder that you arc so happy," she added, "the whole atmosphere of the place is liap]iiiie.ss. I wish you could teach us the secret of it." "Have you. then, only the gift of making ether people happy?" said Frithiof. "That seems strange." "You will jwrhaps think me very discontented," she said, with apa- thetic little f-adness in her tone which touched him. ''But seeing how fresh and simple nnd happy your life is out here makes me more out of heart than ever with my own home. You must not think' I am grumbling; they are very good to me. you know, and give me every- thing that monev can buy ; but somehow there is so m-ich that jars on one, and here there pcems no- thing but kindliness and ease and peace." "I am glad you like our life," ho eaid, "so very glad/' And as she told h'ir. more of her home and her Loti-l >n life, and of how little it satisfied her, her words, and still more her manner nnd her eweet eyes, fieenied to weave a sort cf spell about him, seemed to lure him on into a wonderful future, and to waken in him a new life. "I like him," thought Blanche to herself. "Perhaps, after all, this Norwegian tour will not be so dull. I like to sec his eyes light up so eagerly ; he really has beautiful eyes : I almost think I really al- iiu/sl think I am just a little bit in love with him." At this moment they happened to overtake two English tourists on ' the road ; as they passed on in front of them, Frithiof, with native cuurtrsy. took off his hat. "You surely don't know that man/ he is only a shop-keeper.' 1 aid Blanche, not even taking the trouble to lower her voice. Frithiof crimsoned to the roots cf his hair. "I arn afraid he must have heard what you said," he ex claimed, quickening bis pace in the discomfort of the realization. "I do not know him certainly, but one is bound to be courteous to Btrang- ers.'' "I know exactly who he is." said Blanche, "for he and his sister were on the steamer, and Cyril found out all about them. He is Boniface, the muMc shop man." Frithiof was saved a reply, for just then they reached their des- tination, and rejoined the rest of gethrr on the hill-side enjoying a most lovely view. Down below them, sheltered by a great craggy mountain on the further side, lay a, little lonely lake, so weird-looking, so desolate, that it was hard to be- lieve it to bo within an easy walk of the town. Angry-looking clouds were, beginning to gather in the sky, a purple gloom seemed to over- spread the mountain and the lake, and something of its gravity seemed list.) to have fallen upon Frithiof. He had found the iir;:t imperfection in his ideal, yet it had only served to show him huw great a power, how strange an influence, she pos- sessed over him. He knew now that, for the first time in his life, he was blindly, desperately in love. "Why, it is beginning to rain," said Mr. Morgan. "I almost think we had better be turning back, H< IT Fulck. It 1ms been a most en- joyable little walk ; but if we can rr,ach the hotel before it settles in for a wet evening, whv, all the bet- ter." "The rain is the great drawback t-o Ik-rgen," said Herr Falck. "At Christiania they have a saying that when you go to Bergen it rains three hundred and sixty-six days out of the year. But after all one becomes very much accustomed to it." On the return walk the conversa- tion was more general, and though Kritliiof walked beside Blanche he said very little. His mind was full of the new idea which had just dawned upon him, and he heard her merry talk with Sigrid and Swanhild like a man in a dreain. 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"What delicate little bells!" she exclaimed. "I quite agree with you that Linnaeus showed his good taste.' Frithiof would probably have passed on had he not, at that mo- ment, recognized Cecil as the Eng- lish girl whom he had first accost- ed on the steamer. "Pardon me for not knowing you before," ho said, raising his hat. "Wo met yesterday afternoon, did we not ? i hope you have had a pleasant time at Bergen V "Delightful, thank you. We think it the most charming town \vc ever Baw." "Barring the rain,'' said Roy, "for which we have foolishly for- gotten to reckon." "Never be parted from your um- Swanhild mentioned others which muet on no account be missed. "And you can really only spare a month for it all?" asked Sigrid. ' 'Then I should give up going to Christiania or Trondhjem if I were you. 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She had taken off her lint and was Nicking Ihe rnin-<lrops from it with her handkerchief when Frithiof introduced the two Honi- fnces, and liny, who found his novel experience a little embarrassing, was speedily set at ease by her de- lightful naturalness and frank courtesy. Her bow and smile were grace it- self, and she seemed to take the whole proceeding as a matter of course; one might have supposed that she wns in tho habit of shel- tering wet tourists every day of her life. ''I nin so glad my brother found yon," she exclaimed. "You would have been wet through 'had you walked on to Bergen. Swanhild, run and fetch n duster ; oh, you have brought one- already, that's a good child. Now let me wipe your dress,' 1 she added, turning to Cecil. "Where has every one disappear- ed to J" asked Frithiof. "Father has walked on to Hu kit's Hotel with the Morgans," nnid Hwanhild. ''They would not wait, though we tried to persuade them to. Father is going to talk over their route with them." Cecil saw n momentary look of annoyance on his face ; but the next minute he was talking an pleasant- ly as possible to lloy, and before long the question of routes was be- ing discussed, and as fast as Frith- iof suggested one place, Sigrid and "But, Sigrid, it is impossible to leave out Kongswold and Dombaas. For you are a botanist, are you not?" said Frithiof, turning to the Englishman, "and those places are perfection for flowers." "Yes? Then you must certainly go there," said Sigrid. "Kongswold is a dear little place up on the Dovrefjeld. Yet if you were not botanists I should say you ought to see instead cither the Voringsfos or the Skjaeggedalsfas, they are our two finest water-falls." "The 8kedadd!e-fos, as the Amer- icans call it," put in Frithiof. "You have a great many Ameri- can tourists, I suppose?' said Hoy. "Oh, yes, a great manv and we like them very well, though not as we like the Knglish. To the Eng- lish wo feel very much akin." "And you speak our language so well!" said Cecil, to whom Ihe dis- covery had been a surprise and a re- lief. "You see we Norwegians think a great deal of education. Our schools are very good ; we are all taught te speak German and Kng- lish. French, which with you comes first, does it not) stands third with us." "Tell me about your schools," said Cecil. "Are they like ours, I wonder ?" "We begin at six years old t-o go to the middle school ; they say it is much like your Knglish high schools; both my brother and 1 went to the middle schools here at Bergen. Then when we were six- teen we went to C'hristiania. he to the Handels-gymnasium, and I to Miss Bauer's school, for two years. My little bister is now at the middle school here ; she goes every day, but just now it is holiday time." "And in holidays," said Swan- hild, whose Knglish was much less fluent and ready, "we go away. We perhaps go to-morrow to Balholm." "Perhaps we shall meet you again there,'' said Sigrid. 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