“To Bremen, where she expected to get a cargo for Copenhagen. I suppose she found another cargo there for Stockholm.”
“I don’t blame you, Ole, for leaving him,” said Clyde. “Olaf is the worst man I ever saw. When he got drunk, he abused me and the men. I had to keep out of his way, or I believe he would have killed me, though I was a passenger, and paid my fare.”
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the little steamer ran alongside the ship, and the party went on board, though the principal and all the officers and crew were on shore.
CHAPTER XX.
STOCKHOLM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
After the professor’s lecture on board of the ship, the students were piped to dinner. According to his usual custom, Paul Kendall, with his lady, took rooms at the hotel, and in this instance his example was followed by Shuffles. Dr. Winstock and Captain Lincoln had already accepted an invitation from Paul to spend the afternoon with him in a ride through the city; and as soon as the boats landed at the quay, they hastened to keep the appointment, while the students scattered all over the city to take a general view.
“Well, Paul, how do you find the hotel?” asked the doctor, when the party were seated in the carriage.
“Very good; it is one of the best hotels I have seen in Europe.”