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Updated: May 9, 2025
They saw no living thing but a hawk, which, startled from its perch on a scathed pine, was wheeling round in the air in an unsteady flight. The pirate pointed to the bird with one hand, while he laid the other on the pistol in his belt. "Yes," said Hund, trembling; "the bird saw it. Did you see it?" "See what?" "The water-sprite, Uldra.
"Did you not see M. Kollsen in the boat with Hund?" she inquired. "No. Hund was quite alone, pulling with all his might down the fiord. The tide was with him, so that he shot along like a fish." "How do you know that it was Hund you saw?" "Don't I know our boat? And don't I know his pull? It is no more like Rolf's than Rolf's is like master's."
There could be no doubt that the skiff had been pulled down fathoms deep by a strong hand from below; and if the spirits were angry with Rolf, that was no concern of Rolf's human enemies. Thus Hund strove to comfort himself; but it would not do.
Madame Erlingsen saw that Erica was turning red and white, and resolved to ask, on the first good opportunity, what was in her mind about Hund, for no one was more disposed to distrust and watch him than the lady herself.
You may have heard, sir, for everyone knows it, that Hund wanted to have young Rolf's place, and, some say, Erica herself. Is she dancing, sir, if I may ask?" "Yes, with Rolf. What sort of a man is Rolf with regard to these superstitions, I mean? Is he as foolish as Erica always frightened about something?" "No, indeed.
But he has a uniform of the High Grade at home, so he must be the High Grade himself. Another group of his ideas refer to his race. He has been put on Ward's Island as a result of the great struggle between Christians and Israel. But Israelites are the head of the Fellowship Lodge, so all Christians must follow him, the patient. This is the explanation of "Da liegt der schwarze Hund begraben!"
The stranger had picked up an eagle's feather in his walk; and he now pointed with it to the tiny cove in which Erlingsen's farm might be seen, looking no bigger than an infant's toy, and said, "Do you leave an enemy there, or is Hund now your friend?" "Hund is nobody's friend, unless he happens to be yours," Erica replied, perceiving at once that her companion belonged to the pirates.
"No, not this hour," replied Oddo, in a low voice, which sank to a whisper as he said, "I have left Hund laying the troughs to water the meadow, and if he misses me, I don't care. I could not stay; I could not help coming; and if he kills me for telling you, he may, for tell you I must."
It was now necessary to tell her that she would presently see Hund brought up to the seater a prisoner: and that the farm was no place for any but fighting-men this day. To save her feelings and temper, Erica asked her to watch the herd, leading them to a point whence she could soonest see the expected company mounting the uplands. Frolich shook her head often and mournfully over the breakfast.
Erlingsen thinks he must meet with mercy, for that none need mercy so much as the weak; and Hund's act was an act of weakness." "Weakness!" cried Erica, with disgust. "He is a coward, my dear; and death stared him in the face." "I have often wondered," said Erica, "where on the face of the earth that wretch was wandering: and it is Hund!
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