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House and land and food and grand things enough, and a big sum of money too he had, and his strength; he was hard as nails. Health and strength ay, full and unspoiled, unworn, in every way, the health and strength of a man. When Geissler had gone, Isak began thinking of many presumptuous things.
Axel Ström sat hoping for the best, then suddenly it seemed as if the advocate for the Crown and Fru Heyerdahl were joining forces to make things awkward for him, because he had buried the body instead of notifying the death. He was cross-examined somewhat sharply on this point, and would likely enough have come out badly if he had not all at once caught sight of Geissler sitting in the court.
For the last mile or so there was no ore to be found worth working. Geissler listened to all this with the greatest nonchalance. He took some papers from his pocket, and looked at them carefully; but the papers were not charts nor maps like as not they were things no way connected with the mine at all. "You haven't gone deep enough," said he, as if it were something he had read in his papers.
He walked straight past Geissler, and addressed himself to the gentlemen; he had found some remarkable specimens of rock hereabouts, quite extraordinary, some blood-like, others like silver; he knew every cranny and corner in the hills around and could go straight to every spot; he knew of long veins of some heavy metal whatever it might be. "Have you any samples?" asked the mining expert.
He worked at things by fits and starts, but at a furious rate when he did work. There was a certain superiority about him after all. True, he exaggerated a bit it was impossible, of course, to get all green by this time tomorrow, as he had said, but for all that, Geissler was a sharp fellow, quick to see and take a decision; ay, a strange man was Geissler.
Isak sat listening it was thrilling to hear, a wonderful tale from foreign parts. He followed Geissler's mouth with slavish eyes. Geissler went on: "I went straight back to the hotel and wrote out a statement; did the whole thing myself, you understand, and signed it 'Isak Sellanraa. Don't imagine, though, I said a word against the way they'd managed things in the prison. Not a word.
"Well, then, I'm a man that knows what's the right thing to do, but doesn't do it," says Geissler. "I'm the fog. Now perhaps I'll buy that mine back again one of these days, it's not impossible; but if I do, it wouldn't be to go about staring up at the sky and saying, 'Aerial railway! South America! No, leave that to the gamblers.
These things'll leak at the edges you see, to begin with, but the wood'll swell after a while, and they'll be as taut as a bottle. Oakum and pitch fancy you having it too! What? Built a boat, you say? Where is the boat? Up in the lake? Good! I must have a look at that too." Oh, Geissler was all promises. Light come, light go and he seemed more giving to fussing about than before.
And here their difficulties begin; the law stands in their way; they are foreigners, and cannot be purchasers in their own right. They knew all about that, and had made arrangements. But the southern side of the fjeld was sold already and that they did not know. "Sold?" "Ay, long ago, years back." "Who bought it then?" "Geissler." "What Geissler? oh, that fellow h'm."
But at last Geissler flickered up into a mighty man again, puckered his brows, and said thoughtfully: "Unless, perhaps, I could manage to come to town myself and watch the proceedings." "Ay, if you'd be so good," said Axel. Geissler decided in a moment. "I'll see if I can manage it, if I can get the time. But I've a heap of things to look after down south. I'll come if I can. Good-bye for now.
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