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"I," answered Resa, blushing; and then Hyldreda perceived that, young as she was, the girl wore the matron's head-tire. "I, sitting there with my babe, wept to think of my poor sister who died long ago, and never knew the sweetness of wifehood and motherhood. And almost it grieved me, to think that my love had blotted out the bitterness of her memory even from the heart of Esbern Lynge."
"I saw only the sun shining on the river, and the oak-wood waving in the breeze." "Look down the road, child; the time passes. Go quickly." "She is gone already," said Resa, laughing merrily. "She is standing under the great elder-tree to wait for Esbern Lynge." "Call her back call her back!" cried the mother, anxiously. "To stand beneath an elder-tree, and this night will be St. John's Eve!
And did not the eyes of Esbern Lynge say so, when, week after week, he came up the hilly road, and descended again to the little chapel, supporting the feeble mother's slow steps, and watching his betrothed as she bounded on before, with little Resa in her hand? "Is Esbern coming?" said the mother's voice within. "I know not I did not look," answered Hyldreda, with a girlish willfulness.
See also Schubert, Resa i Sverge, ii., p. 375. Principal Causes of the Destruction of the Forest.
Resa, the train, which was a mixed one, made up of two passenger coaches and a dozen freight cars, had to stop at irregular intervals, following which the road ran through a twenty-mile wilderness, the most of the way rugged in the extreme. It was during this part of the journey that Jack expected trouble if anywhere, and as he approached the broken region he kept a sharp watch on every hand.
Jack had another talk with the Peruvian about the railroad position and then slapped his hands together. "I'm going to have a try at it, come what may," he said, determinedly. Jack Becomes an Engineer Jack as usual, was as good as his word. He stopped long enough to lay down his tools and seek the foreman for a leave of absence. "Going to St. Resa? You will make the journey but one way.
Another silence fell upon the twain, during which Jack's hands were not as busy as his brains, until finally he laid aside his work, saying in his blunt way: "I shall start within a week for St. Resa, unless in the meantime I get some sort of word from John Fowler & Company, or from my folks." After that the days flew by on the wings of the wind.
So Esbern, who, though a lover, was a manly-hearted youth, and thought it shame to be mocked by a girl's light tongue, left her there and went away, not angry, but very sorrowful. Little Resa came to summon her sister. But Hyldreda trembled before the gathering storm, for widow Kalm, though a tender mother, was one who well knew how to rule.
Dost thou not hear them too, little Resa? and dost thou not ?" Hyldreda suddenly stopped, and gazed eagerly down the road. "Well, sister," said Resa, "what art dreaming of now? Come, we shall be late at church, and mother will scold." But the elder sister stood motionless. "How strange thine eyes look; what dost thou see, Hyldreda." "Look what is there!"
"Tip-top, I am sorry to say. To tell the truth, Jack, he does so well I am afraid he will get my job away from me. I wish you would take the lever again, Jack, and let me fire. I never had so good a time in my life as I did then." This was a little past noon, and a few minutes later Jack would be obliged to part with Plum, who must start on his return to St. Resa.
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