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Well, they were going to start that copper mine, that was all. So it had come to something after all; Geissler had not been merely boasting. It was not the same big men that had come with him that time no, the two of them had stayed behind, having business elsewhere, no doubt. But the same engineer was there, and the mining expert that had come at first.
And that was the end of their last meeting. Geissler appeared to care nothing for what might come of it. He walked about talking of this, that, and the other; for the moment he seemed chiefly interested in the laying of some heavy beams across the shell of the new cowhouse. They were to get the work finished that week, with a temporary roof a new fodder loft was to be built up over later on.
"All?" said Geissler. "Heavens, man, can't you see it ought to have been ever so much more? And it was my business really to pay you, according to our contract; but you saw how things were it was the only way to manage it. What did you get? Only a thousand Daler, according to the old reckoning. I've been thinking, you'll need another horse on the place now." "Ay." "Well, I know of one.
And maybe Geissler would have dissuaded him there; have thought it a risky thing to buy up land for cultivation and give it to Eleseus; to a clerk. Uncle Sivert died after all. Eleseus spent three weeks looking after him, and then the old man died.
Inger went out on the door-slab to see him off; she did not cry or complain, but only said: "They may be coming for me now any day." "You don't know when?" "No, I can't say. And I don't suppose it will be just yet, but anyhow.... If only you could get hold of Geissler, perhaps he might be able to say something." What could Geissler do to help them now? Nothing. But Isak went.
"Sivert." "And the other one?" "Eleseus." "And he's in an engineer's office what's he reckon to learn there? A starvation-business. Much better have come to me," said Geissler. "Ay," said Isak, for politeness' sake. He felt a sort of pity for Geissler at the moment. Oh, that good man did not look as if he could afford to keep clerks; had to work hard enough by himself, belike.
"Fifty Daler is the most they can fairly ask of any buyer," answered the expert. Lensmand Heyerdahl drew up his report in elegant phrasing. Geissler had written: "The man will also have to pay land tax every year; he cannot afford to pay more for the place than fifty Daler, in annual instalments over ten years. The State can accept his offer, or take away his land and the fruits of his work."
"I've no time to stand talking now," he said. "Going back tomorrow, are you? Good. Good-bye, then, and good luck to you." And Geissler strolled off across the street. On the boat going home, Axel encountered the Lensmand and his wife, Barbro and the two girls called as witnesses. "Well," said Fru Heyerdahl, "aren't you glad it turned out so well?"
Thus Professor Stark attributes to them, with experiments in proof of his opinion, the emission of the spectra of the rays in Geissler tubes, and the complexity of the spectrum discloses the complexity of the centre. Besides, certain peculiarities in the conductivity of metals cannot be explained without a supposition of this kind.
Marvel on marvel coming to Sellanraa! They spoke of the mine, of the work up in the hills. "They were asking about you, quite a lot," said Isak. "Who?" "The engineer, and all the other gentlemen. 'Have to get hold of you somehow, they said." Oh, but here Isak was saying overmuch, it seemed. Geissler was offended, no doubt; he turned sharp and curt, and said: "Well, I'm here, if they want me."
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