The poor girl lived only upon the recollection of Ole; and her hope of seeing him again grew fainter from day to day.

It is true, she had near her the two beings she loved best in the world; and one of them never ceased to encourage her; but would that suffice?
Was it not necessary to divert her mind at any cost?
But how was her mind to be diverted from the gloomy thoughts that bound her, as it were, to the shipwrecked "Viking ?" The 12th of July came.

The drawing of the Christiania Schools Lottery was to take place in four days.
It is needless to say that Sandgoist's purchase had come to the knowledge of the public.

The papers announced that the famous ticket bearing the number 9672 was now in the possession of M.Sandgoist, of Drammen, and that this ticket would be sold to the highest bidder; so, if M.Sandgoist was now the owner of the aforesaid ticket, he must have purchased it for a round sum of Hulda Hansen.
Of course this announcement lowered the young girl very decidedly in public estimation.

What! Hulda Hansen had consented to sell the ticket belonging to her lost lover?
She had turned this last memento of him into money?
But a timely paragraph that appeared in the "Morgen-Blad" gave the readers a true account of what had taken place.