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Updated: June 3, 2025
Fully twenty minutes before time for the curtain Hedin was in his place, tenth row on the middle aisle, eagerly scanning the patrons as they were ushered to their seats. The theatre boasted only two boxes, set just above the stage level, and Elsie Campbell had engaged them both. As time for the curtain to rise drew near, Hedin found himself fidgeting nervously.
The days following the return of Wentworth and Hedin from the survey of the rapids were busy ones at the little post on Gods Lake. For it was the time of the spring trading, and from far and near came the men of the outlands, bringing in their harvest of fur. The post flag floated gaily at the staff head, and in the broad clearing about its base were pitched the tepees of the fur bringers.
Madame de Staël and Michelet expressed high regard for German character and institutions. There are degrees and qualities of attraction and absorption, varying from the amorous surrender with which Lafcadio Hearn took on Japanese form to the bootlicking flattery which Sven Hedin heaps on the Germans. He would lackey anywhere. Strindberg dealt faithfully with Hedin's pretensions.
Hedin's voice rasped harsh, and McNabb noticed that the younger man's fists were clenched as he laid a restraining hand upon his arm. "Take it easy lad," he said. "Maybe it's better we should play a waitin' game." "Waiting game!" cried Hedin. "I've been playing a waiting game for months and I'm through. Good God, man! Do you think my nerves are of iron?
As she spoke, he saw that her eyes were flashing angrily. "If your surly mood doesn't change," she whispered, "you will not add much to the enjoyment of our coasting party." "I shall neither add to, nor detract from it," answered Hedin, meeting her gaze squarely. "Please don't wait for me. I find that I shall not be able to attend."
Ever since the coming of Wentworth, whom she had taken under her special patronage, Hedin had been studiously omitted from her scheme of social activities and Jean McNabb had been as studiously included.
"Where is Murchison?" he asked, glancing through the window toward the post. "He has gone in a boat with Wawake to set the fish nets." Without a word Wentworth stepped across the room, unlocked his trunk, and from its depths drew the sable coat that Hedin had last seen upon the shoulders of Jean McNabb as she walked from the store upon that memorable Saturday.
Hedin was no unwelcome guest in the houses of gentlefolks, and he was often seen at the judge's and the pastor's omber parties. And for all this Bjarne Blakstad only hated him the more.
As might be expected, there is much mention of Wicking adventure and of maritime warfare in Saxo. Bertin and the court-poets have lovingly described a ship with gold-broidered sails, gilt masts, and red-dyed rigging. One of his ships has, like the ships in the Chansons de Geste, a carbuncle for a lantern at the masthead. Hedin signals to Frode by a shield at the masthead.
His diversion is over for the day, and in the darkness of his cell, where night and day, noon, sunset, and the dawn are all alike, the poor soul has thought that another day of his long penance was over." Here is another account from the pen of Sven Hedin.
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