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Brede apparently did not fancy being taken to task now by his former chief; he answered sharply, without any form of respect, treating the ex-Lensmand as an equal: "If you think I care what you say ..." "You've no more sense than you had before," said Geissler. "Fooling away your time." "What about yourself?" said Brede. "What about you, I'd like to know?
Geissler sat down, slapped his knee with a powerful hand, and there he was master of Isak's fate. "You haven't sold that copper tract yet?" he asked. "No." "Good. I'll buy it myself. Yes, I've seen Inger and some other people too. She'll be out before long, if I'm not greatly mistaken the case has been submitted to the King." "The King?" "The King, yes.
Ay, for had not Geissler, that blessing to them all, said at parting that he would send a message very soon would send a telegram as soon as ever he could. "You can call in at the post office in a fortnight's time," he had said. And that in itself was a wonderful thing enough. Isak set to work making a seat for the cart.
They want to know all sorts of things the whole business is in a dreadful muddle, as Geissler left it," said the official. "The Department wishes to be informed as to whether any considerable crop of marketable berries is to be reckoned with on the estate. Whether there is any heavy timber. Whether possibly there may be ores or metals of value an the hills adjoining.
Geissler went on writing for a bit, and then looked up. "You'll be having other people taking up land hereabouts before long." At this the man with him spoke: "There's some started already." "Ho! And who might that be?" "Well, first, there's the folk at Breidablik, as they call it man Brede, at Breidablik." "Him puh!" sniffed Geissler contemptuously.
And now Geissler was thinking of selling out to these Swedish gentlemen here; they were relatives of his wife, all of them, and rich men. "Do you see what I mean?" "I'll do it what way you please," said Isak. A strange thing this complete confidence seemed to comfort Geissler wonderfully in his threadbareness. "Well, I'm not sure it's the best thing you could do," he said thoughtfully.
Someone takes Axel Ström by the arm: it is Geissler. "H'm," said he, "so you're done with that now!" "Ay," said Axel. "But they've wasted a lot of your time to no purpose." "Ay," said Axel again. But he was coming to himself again gradually, and after a moment he added: "None the less, I'm glad it was no worse." "No worse?" said Geissler. "I'd have liked to see them try!"
But in any case, they wanted to have a clear title, without encumbrance, and therefore they offered Isak five hundred Kroner for his share. "I'm acting on his behalf," said Geissler, "and I'm not going to sell out his share for less than ten per cent. of the purchase-money." "Four thousand!" said the others. "Four thousand," said Geissler. "The land was his, and his share comes to four thousand.
Mention is made of water, but nothing stated as to any fishery in the same. This Geissler appears to have furnished certain information, but he's not to be trusted, and here have I to go through the whole affair again after him. I shall have to come up to Sellanraa and make a thorough inspection and valuation. How many miles is it up there?
Possibly, again, Geissler himself had at last begun to feel the need of money, and had been forced to sell for what he could get. Twenty-five or fifty thousand was not to be despised, after all. As a matter of fact, there were rumours that it was his eldest son who had settled the business on his father's account.
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