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Ragnhild had heard the Captain, highly offended, talking to her through the wall. But that evening the Captain had demanded to speak with her in her room before she went to bed. Fruen agreed, and there was a further scene. Each was willing and anxious, no doubt, to set matters right, but it was hopeless now; it was too late. We sat in the kitchen, Nils and I, listening to Ragnhild's story.

'But surely you must know what made you write? 'I suppose it was because I hoped things would come right again. 'And they didn't? 'Well, no! 'But what was in your mind when you wrote? Were you thinking of me? Did you want me again? I can't make out what was in your mind. 'Ragnhild's finished, I see, said the Captain. 'Good-night, Ragnhild!" "And then you came away?"

It was something like that, anyway. 'Yes, but I was with Papa and Mama, and they weren't hard like you; they said I had been married to him, and weren't unkind to me at all. It isn't every one that looks at things like you do, 'You don't want that candle alight now Ragnhild's gone, do you? said the Captain.

He had not managed to free himself from Ragnhild's watchfulness; she was still there, to be close at hand when he was talking to Elisabet in some corner, or making towards the summer-house late in the evening to sit there with some one undisturbed. So he tried another way, and began making himself agreeable to that same Ragnhild. Oho!

I had not been there since. Then what made him come over like this all of a sudden? I set it down as more of Ragnhild's mischievous work. When he had told me in so many words he forbade me to enter his house, Lars nodded and looked at me; to his mind, I ought now to be as one dead. "And I've heard Emma's been down here," he went on. "But she'll come no more, I fancy, after this."

But after Snaekoll's flight his right to succeed to Ragnhild's estates was doubtless forfeited, and they were granted on his father's and mother's death to Johanna on her marriage with Freskin de Moravia of Duffus about 1245 or later, before Ottar's birth. With the descent of the Gunns in the male line downwards we are not here concerned.

But in the doorway she turned, and now her face was pale. She seemed to have formed her resolution already. Speaking over her shoulder, she said to her husband: "I shouldn't be surprised if Ragnhild's eyes were a little too bright." "Eh?" says the Captain, in surprise. "Yes," says Fruen, with a slight laugh, nodding over towards the table where we sat.

We suggest later that Snaekoll Gunnison was the father, before his flight to Norway, of a daughter, Johanna of Strathnaver, who inherited the Moddan and Erlend estates, or that she was otherwise Ragnhild's heiress. The male line of the Gunns, according to a pedigree which the writer has seen, was continued after his flight by Snaekoll who, it is stated, had a son, Ottar, living in 1280.

The Captain was aware of Ragnhild's doings, and once said to his wife so all might hear he was drunk, no doubt, and annoyed at something or other: "That Ragnhild's an underhanded creature; I'd be glad to be rid of her." Fruen answered: "It's not the first time you've wanted to get Ragnhild out of the way; Heaven knows what for! She's the best maid we've ever had."

It is suggested that the ownership of these lands in Strathnaver and of the other upland territories in Halkirk and Latheron parishes, held by her descendants and sequels in all her estate, the Chens, connects the Lady Johanna with the family of Moddan "in dale" in Caithness and with Earl Ottar, and with Frakark and Audhild her niece, and that Johanna was entitled to these lands in their entirety in her own right as the sole descendant remaining in Scotland after 1232 of Harald Ungi's younger surviving sister Ragnhild, possibly through her son Snaekoll by Gunni, and that Snaekoll was next heir to these lands before he went abroad, and either that he was Johanna's father, or that she became Ragnhild's heir in his place.