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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mr. Jeussen of Trondhjem, for you. Come home as quickly as you can. If you have any nice furs, I shall be glad of them. He told me nothing definite about the two children. The name of one of them is Lottie—that is all I know." " Rather a startling letter that," observed Fred, as his brother finished reading it. " What is the other one ?" " From Jeussen, authorizing me to draw upon him for a hundred and eighty dollars. Get up and come along; we must be off to-day." " When does the southward-bound steamer leave Tromso ?'' " To-morrow. If we take a big boat, we can get to Tromso to-morrow morning, and shall have time to do what we want there before the steamer starts." " All right. What do you think of the Mater's letter?" " Ton my soul, Fred, I don't know. It's very alarming." " Just so. You see, uncle must have been tolerably sane to remember our little impru- VOL. I. C dences. He never forgave you for selling out of the army to pay your turf debts." " It was a sore point with him, I know; but he was much more riled when you half-murdered that engineer, to whom he had paid such a large premium for you." " Served the beggar quite right; you should have heard the crimes he accused me of! But, to return to this disgusting affair, who was Aunt Charlotte ?" " Our father's sister. She married some scamping vagabond, against the wishes of all her people. She died some fourteen years ago, before the death of our father." " That accounts for my knowing nothing of her. Is anything known of her husband ?" " Not by me ; beyond the fact that his name was Serrall, and that he was a turfite. I think that he must be dead, for I haven't heard of him since his wife's death. You see, our people cut Aunt Charlotte when she married him, and she, being a woman o...