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"Ay, I'll be keeping him yet." "I see. You've no sheep to be killed?" "Not now I haven't. 'Tis this way, I've never had but what's to be kept on the place." "Oh, I see," said Fru Heyerdahl; "well, that was all." And she went on her way. Axel drove up homeward, but he could not help thinking somewhat of what had passed; he rather feared he had made a false step somehow.
Open the door." Cook opens the door and explains as agreed upon, that Barbro had had to run home for a minute about something. Home for a minute at this time of night? Fru Heyerdahl has a good deal to say about that. And in the morning there is a scene. Brede is sent for, and Fru Heyerdahl asks: "Was Barbro at home with you last night at three o'clock?"
Cook has no longer any reason for keeping silence, and now she let out the whole thing, and told all about the nights Barbro had been out. Fru Heyerdahl mightily indignant; she cares nothing about Cook, 'tis Barbro she is after, the girl whose character she has answered for.
And her mistress turns to Axel and says: "Have you come down with some meat, or something?" "H'm," said Axel, just that, and touched his cap. Now it was Fru Heyerdahl that had praised him up so that last autumn, saying he was a splendid fellow and she had always thought well of him; and one good turn was worth another, no doubt.
"Well, well, 'tis too late to be crying over it now," said he. "She had brown hair," sobbed Inger, "there at the back of her head...." And again no more was said. Time went on as before. Inger was not locked up; the law was merciful. Lensmand Heyerdahl asked her questions just as he might have spoken to any one, and only said, "It's a great pity such things should happen at all."
Fru Lensmand Heyerdahl had taken up the case. She went about to high and low, never sparing herself, demanded to be called as a witness, and made a speech in court.
The advocate went on: "As a man, as a private person, I will even go further, and say: I would never condemn a single unmarried mother for killing her child." "Most interesting," said Geissler, "to find the advocate for the Crown so entirely in agreement with what Fru Heyerdahl said before the court." "Oh, Fru Heyerdahl!... Still, to my mind, there was a great deal in what she said.
Last winter she had gone so far as to read occasionally a certain excellent devotional work which she had brought from Trondhjem, from the Institute; but now, Eleseus might be a Lensmand one day! "And why not?" said Eleseus. "What's Heyerdahl himself but a former clerk in the same department?" Splendid prospects. His mother herself advised him not to give up his career and throw himself away.
Asked Geissler about it, I understand, but Geissler put him off; said he couldn't cultivate a hundred yards of land. So he sent in an application to the Amtmand, and I'm instructed to see the matter through. More of Geissler's muddling!" Lensmand Heyerdahl came up to the farm, and brought with him his assistant, Brede.
"Did you take in the washing last night?" "Yes." "That's a good thing, it's blowing so hard.... Good-night." But it was not so pleasant for Fru Heyerdahl to get her husband to wake her in the middle of the night and go padding across herself to the servants' room to see if they were at home. They could do as they pleased, she would trouble herself no more.
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