"By all means," said the Pastor, "and Helga will go too."
"No, little father, I will stay with you," said Helga. "You will have no one to fill your pipe, and will feel lonely."
As John Hardy went out, he gave Karl and Axel some money. The boys asked what it was for.
"To buy anything you like, as far it will go," said Hardy.
The boys, however, would not take it; they were sure their father would not wish it, after the expense Hardy had already been put to on their account.
"Your father would be quite right," said Hardy; but he recollected it, and this small circumstance, told him that Karl could be trusted, and assisted him more to get Karl a situation of trust than Hardy's influence and that of his friends.
CHAPTER XVIII.
"Viator.—Methinks the way is mended since I had the good fortune to fall into your good company."—The Complete Angler.
Horsens was explored the next day, but Hardy had a purpose in view. He knew his mother would like to see photographs of his Danish friends. The chief reason for a walk the night before was to ascertain the photographer's shop. This he discovered, and proposed that they should all be separately photographed.