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Updated: June 18, 2025
The raid into Delaware was all organized when Levin and Hulda were driven to Johnson's tavern, and the arrival of Van Dorn called forth cheers and yells, as that blushing worthy threw his trim, athletic figure out of the wagon and bowed to Joe Johnson, on the tavern porch: "O hala hala! do you go, son-in-law?" "I'll ride with ye, Captain, a split of the Maryland way, but sprat for that Delaware!
"Oh, then embrace it," Hulda said, "and give your faith a single straw to cling to." Van Dorn's hand slipped around her waist, and his florid cheeks and blue eyes bent beneath her Leghorn hat: "I find it here, perhaps, Hulda. Shall I embrace your youth with my strong passion? I fear I love you."
It was on the afternoon of the following day that Joel was to return home; and Hulda, who knew that her brother would come back by the table-lands of the Gousta and along the left bank of the Maan, went to meet him at the ferry across that impetuous stream.
Having said this Hulda turned, as if to leave the room, evidently supposing that the conversation so far as she was concerned had been terminated by her refusal, but at a gesture from her mother she paused. An exclamation of annoyance had escaped Dame Hansen, and Sandgoist's knitted brows and flashing eyes showed that anger was beginning to take possession of him. "Yes, remain, Hulda," said he.
There is, therefore, no doubt, little Hulda, that he carries both the ring and the wand about with him wherever he goes, and if in all your walks and during your whole life you should see him again, and go boldly up to him and demand the stolen stone, he will be compelled instantly to burrow his way down again into the earth, and leave behind him all his ill-gotten gains."
Where is he? I see no one." Hulda hastily climbed a little knoll behind the mossy rock upon which she had been sitting. "Joel!" she cried, suddenly. "Do you see him?" "There, there!" As she spoke she pointed to the imprudent man whose body seemed to be almost overhanging the abyss. If his foothold upon a tiny ledge of rock failed him, or he was seized with dizziness, he was lost.
Joel had no occasion to absent himself, consequently, but could remain with Hulda, whom he was very unwilling to leave alone with her own thoughts. Dame Hansen seemed to become more and more a prey to secret anxiety. She seemed to feel no interest in anything connected with her children, not even in the loss of the "Viking."
He looked with the most delicate attention at Hulda, blushed when she looked at him, and, scarcely noticing the horses, yet having them under nearly automatic control, he drove out of Patty Cannon's lane and turned into the woods.
"Yes." "I certainly never heard the name before." "But she has, though she had never seen the man until day before yesterday." Then Hulda related all the incidents that had marked Sandgoist's sojourn at the inn, not neglecting to mention Dame Hansen's singular conduct at the moment of his departure.
Presently Hulda came down with a little box in her hand, out of which she took the fairy's wand. The pedlar was so transported at the sight of it that he could scarcely conceal his joy; but he knew that unless he could get it by fair means it would be of no use to him. "How dim it looks!" said little Hulda; "the stones used to be so very bright when first I had it."
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