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A nice state of things all at once it couldn't have happened worse than to have Sivert running off just now. But there was no help for it. Said Oline: "I'd no time to go running errands, and that's the truth; but for all that ... I've taken a fancy to the children here, all of them, and little Sivert, and if as I could help him to his legacy...." "But was Uncle Sivert very bad, then?" "Bad?
Says Sivert: "Did Aronsen say anything about a man named Geissler?" "Ay. Said something about he'd be wanting to sell some land he'd got.
It was Isak's old idea to drain the bogs at Storborg and till the land there properly; the bit of a store was only to be an extra, a convenience, to save folk going all the way down to the village for a reel of thread. So Sivert and Andresen stood there digging, and talking now and again when they stopped for a rest.
Here, she was almost great at any rate, the greatest; and she may well have thought herself worth all the chastening she ordered and endured. Her husband said: "Sivert and I, we've been talking about this; we're not going to have you sawing wood, and wearing yourself out." "I do it for conscience' sake," she answered. Conscience! The word made Isak thoughtful once more.
After a while his father went on again: "There's but eight places now in all, but there might be more before long. More ... well, I don't know...." Sivert wondering more than ever what can his father be getting at? The pair of them walk on a long way in silence; they are nearly home now. "H'm," says Isak. "What you think Aronsen he'd ask for that place of his now?" "Ho, that's it!" says Sivert.
Sivert, indeed, was the one that helped most to keep Eleseus at home; it would have been much harder but for him. As a matter of fact, Eleseus was getting rather spoiled again; the three weeks' idling on the other side of the hills had not done him any good. He had also been to church there, and made a show; ay, he had even met some girls there.
One of the gentlemen went in to Inger and paid royally for coffee, a few eggs, and their lodging. Geissler walked about with a careless air, but he was wide awake all the same. "How did that irrigation work turn out last year?" he asked Sivert. "It saved the whole crop." "You've cut away that mound there since I was here last, what?" "Ay." "You must have another horse on the farm," said Geissler.
The great thing is to hurry and get through with it before the new year, when the frost sets in in earnest, and the saw cannot work. Things are going on nicely, everything as well as could be wished. If Sivert happens to come up from the village with an empty sledge, he stops and takes a stick of timber on the way, to help his neighbour.
Going to old Sivert now, to let him know how she, Oline, had managed to persuade Eleseus to come. But Eleseus had needed no persuading, there was no difficulty there. For, look you, Eleseus had turned out better, after all, than he'd begun; a decent lad in his way, kindly and easy-going from a child, only nothing great in the way of bodily strength.
"Then there's one or two others besides, have bought." "Doubt if they're any good, any of them," said Geissler. And noticing at the same moment that there were two boys in the room, he caught hold of little Sivert and gave him a coin. A remarkable man was Geissler. His eyes, by the way, had begun to look soreish; there was a kind of redness at the edges.
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