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But in any case, they wanted to have a clear title, without encumbrance, and therefore they offered Isak five hundred Kroner for his share. "I'm acting on his behalf," said Geissler, "and I'm not going to sell out his share for less than ten per cent. of the purchase-money." "Four thousand!" said the others. "Four thousand," said Geissler. "The land was his, and his share comes to four thousand.
Thanks to his small salary as president of his Union, they suffered no actual privation. Pelle did not like the idea of accepting this salary; he felt greatly inclined to refuse the few hundred kroner. There was not a drop of bureaucratic blood in his veins, and he did not feel that a man should receive payment for that which he accomplished for the general good.
Even the mighty Bergendal had left his contempt of death at home to-day, and was content to grumble like the rest. "We must knock a hole in the dam," he said, "then the brute may perish in the waves!" They immediately picked up their tools, in order to set to work. The engineer threatened them with the law and the authorities; it would cost thousands of kroner to empty the harbor again.
The Rumanian armies had swept the country clean of livestock and agricultural machinery, throwing thousands of peasants out of work, and, owing to the appalling depreciation of the kroner, which was worth less than a twentieth of its normal value, great numbers of people who, under ordinary conditions, would have been described as comfortably well off, found themselves with barely sufficient resources to keep themselves from want.
Nikolai has gone back to his workshop in the town, but I have remained behind. It matters little where I am, for the winter makes a dead man of me in any case. To pass the time, I carefully measure the piece of land that Nikolai is going to break up when he can afford it, and I calculate what it will cost him, with drainage and everything: a bare two hundred kroner. Then he could keep a horse.
They had not yet recovered from the winter when he was drawn into the conflict; and the preparations for his new position had plunged them into debt. Pelle received the same relief as the other locked-out workers ten to twelve kroner a week and out of this Ellen had to provide them with food and firing.
Three years they had kept the hotel, and Pelle had to name the sum out of which her father had been cheated. She was proud that they had once possessed so much. Ten thousand kroner! Over here her father had found work as a stonemason's laborer, but one day he trod on a loose beam and fell.
"Six Kroner, my boy," he whispered in my ear. "And another six at the next place, that's twelve." So off we went, and I carried our things. Falkenberg was right; the people at the next farm would not be outdone by their neighbours; their piano must be seen to as well.
"The prefect of police himself has just five hundred kroner lying in his desk. I'll try to get it for you if you like." "No," said Pelle slowly, "I would rather undergo my punishment. But thanks for your kind intentions and give my best wishes to your old mother. And if you ever have anything to spare, then give it to Widow Johnsen. She and the child have gone hungry since Hanne's death."
"I'm sure that Karin and Halvor care enough about this old farm to want to sell to some person who would keep up the property, even if they have to take a couple of thousand kroner less," he said. Then he proceeded to tell for Karin's special benefit of various farms that had gone to waste after falling into the hands of corporations. Once or twice Karin glanced up at the pastor.
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