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We buried the body on a bench of the bluff across the river from the native village, the natives all standing around reverently while the words of committal were said, and set up a cross marked with lead-pencil: "R. I. P. Eric Ericson, found frozen, January, 1906." Two or three years later a friend sent me a small bronze tablet with the same legend, and that was affixed to the cross.
"I can play better than I used to, and harder." "Don't you ever work, then?" She had not intended to say it. It slipped out because she was confused enough to say just the wrong thing. "I work between times." Nils' steady gaze still beat upon her. "Don't you worry about my working, Mrs. Ericson. You're getting like all the rest of them."
Miss Moeller, want you to meet Mr. Oscar Ericson you know " "S' happy meet you, Miss Mmmmmmm," said Carl, tremendously well-bred in manner. "Can we possibly go over and be clever in a corner, do you think?" He had heard Colonel Haviland say that, but his manner gave it no quotation-marks. Presumably he talked to Miss Moeller about something usual the snow or the party or Owen Johnson's novels.
But he wondered if the Dictator in his iron course was sleeping quietly in the front of danger for him which must mean misery for her, and was thinking nothing about her. Surely he must know, by this time, that she loved him! Surely he must love her that bright, gifted, generous, devoted girl? Was she, then, misprized by Ericson?
'Well, I'll tell you, whether or not, returned Ericson. 'I could, I believe, amputate a living limb with considerable coolness; but put a knife in a dead body I could not. 'I think I know what you mean. Then you must be a lawyer. 'A lawyer! O Lord! said Ericson. 'Why not? asked Robert, in some wonderment; for he could not imagine Ericson acting from mere popular prejudice or fancy.
She was much in the habit of going into the conservatory before luncheon, and Ericson had often found her there; and perhaps she had in her own mind a lingering expectation that if he got back from the village, and the coroner, and the magistrates, and all the rest of it, in time, he would come to the conservatory and look for her.
I studied the place a little bit before Ericson had left, and I got to know some people. I am what would have been called in other days a soldier of fortune, dear girl, although, Heaven knows! I never made much fortune by my soldiering you should just ask my wife!
My duty and my conscience would always be at strife. 'Then what will you be, Mr. Ericson? 'To tell the truth, I would rather be a watchmaker than anything else I know. I might make one watch that would go right, I suppose, if I lived long enough. But no one would take an apprentice of my age.
Ericson then saw that To-to was seated resolutely on the chair which Helena usually occupied at luncheon. 'But what is the use if she is not coming? the Dictator suggested not to disparage the intelligence of To-to, but only to find out, if he could, the motive of that undoubtedly sagacious animal's taking such a definite attitude.
"You're a good guesser," laughed Nils giving the lad's hand a swing. To himself he was thinking: "That's why the little girl looked so friendly. He's taught her to like me. He was only six when I went away, and he's remembered for twelve years." Eric stood fumbling with his cap and smiling. "You look just like I thought you would," he ventured. "Go wash your hands, Eric," called Mrs. Ericson.
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