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"Yes; and half the time between my call and your answer will exactly indicate that which my voice will take in coming to you." "Just so, my uncle." "Are you ready?" "Yes." "Now, attention. I am going to call your name." I put my ear to the wall, and as soon as the name 'Axel' came I immediately replied "Axel," then waited. "Forty seconds," said my uncle.
"Here, reach me the ax, can't you?" cries Axel louder. "I'm pinned here under a tree." But Brede is strangely full of zeal in his duty now, he keeps on looking at the telegraph wires, and whistling all the time. "Ho, so you're going to murder me won't even reach me the ax?" cries Axel. And at that it seems as if there is trouble farther down the line, which Brede must see to without delay.
Friday, August 21. On the morrow the magnificent geyser has disappeared. The wind has risen, and has rapidly carried us away from Axel Island. The roarings become lost in the distance. The weather if we may use that term will change before long. The atmosphere is charged with vapours, pervaded with the electricity generated by the evaporation of saline waters.
His confounded luck wouldn't even grant him the opportunity of burying himself out there in that gray sea of blowing dust! There was no use in trying to disguise the fact any longer; he was a fizzle. Some men were designed from the beginning for failures, and he was one of the plainest patterns that ever was made. There was a place for Axel Peterson, the alien, but there was no place for him.
A country horse with rough trappings, such as a small farmer might ride, was in readiness, and mounting this he rode to Rotterdam, some thirty-five miles distant, and there put it up at a small inn, where he had been charged to leave it. He then walked down to the river and inquired about boats sailing for the ports of Sluys or Axel.
"I wish I could write as nice a hand as that," she said. Eleseus was disappointed. What had he done what was the matter with her? And where was Axel? He was not there. Beginning to get tired of these foolish Sunday visits, perhaps, and preferred to stay away; or he might have had some business to keep him over, when he went down to the village the day before. Anyhow, he was not there.
Ay, this was good to hear after all the disgrace of it. Axel, at any rate, was so touched that he felt he must do something, give Fru Heyerdahl something or other, whatever he could find a piece of meat perhaps, now autumn was come. He had a young bull.... Fru Lensmand Heyerdahl kept her word; she took Barbro to live with her.
And at that he simply nodded and went. When he was out of sight, Axel appeared suddenly from behind some bushes. Barbro started, all taken aback, and asked: "What's that where have you been? Up that way?" "No; I've been down that way," he answered. "But I saw you two going up here." "Ho, did you? And a lot of good it did you, I dare say," she cried, suddenly furious.
Then her mistress called her up and said: "Really, Barbro, you ought not to be going on like that among the men now. Remember what you've just been through, and what you've come from." "I was only talking to him a minute," said Barbro. "I could hear he was from Bergen." Axel did not speak to her. He noticed that she was pale and clear-skinned now, and her teeth were better.
The expedition therefore descended with the greatest possible speed and in an incredibly short time we were down on the glacier, which was named Axel Heiberg Glacier. Our camp of this night lay at about 3,100 feet above sea level. On the following day the longest ascent began; we were forced to follow Axel Heiberg Glacier.
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