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And after that came suitors from all the countries round about, but the lovely Kyllikki would not marry one of them. When Lemminkainen heard of this, he resolved that he would win her himself.
And thus the handsome Lemminkainen died, and was cast into the river of Tuoni, that flows along the Deathland. Lemminkainen's mother began to grow uneasy at his long absence, and to fear that some trouble had befallen him. At last one day, as his wife, the fair Kyllikki, was in her room, she noticed that drops of blood had begun to flow from the bristles of Lemminkainen's hair-brush.
Then stepping back, she stood waiting, her face pale, her eyes fixed on Olof's face. It was the critical moment. To Kyllikki it seemed endless, as she stood there stiffly, dreading with every breath lest she should fall. Olof stood motionless, staring at her as at a vision. Once before he had seen her thus during the ordeal with her father.
It was in the quiet hour of dusk, when Olof had just come home from his work, and the walls of the room seemed whispering expectantly. Silently as the dusk, Kyllikki stole into his opened arms, her eyes asking what he had to tell, and pouring out her own thoughts and feelings.
And if you were sure you need have no fear for me." He looked at her in surprise and admiration. "You are a strange girl, Kyllikki," he said at last. "I am only just beginning to understand you. You are not as I hoped you would be but you are something more. I know what it must have cost you to say so much. I shall not forget." Again the trouble rose within him.
In a single moment, something terrible had passed between them, which neither dared to speak of, but which showed plainly in their eyes. A gulf seemed to have opened before their feet, filled with strange and horrible creatures, all waving tentacles and ghastly staring eyes. Kyllikki covered her face with her hands as if to shut out the sight.
"And it is so terrible to see it all and be helpless," she went on. "You are a wanderer still and I cannot hold you ... you leave me for those that wait for you...." "O Heaven!" cried Olof in agony. "Kyllikki, don't don't speak like that. You know I do not care for any other would not be with any other but you." "But you go even against your will. And they come towards you smiling.
Kyllikki is unchanged and you, I see, are much as I had thought you would be. Proud and exacting as ever, though not perhaps in quite the same way. And well it is so, for if you had seemed otherwise I should have suspected at once. "Yes, I will venture. I am ready to venture anything. I did not even need to think it over; I had decided long since, and have not changed.
"If you come to-morrow, then you will come again till it's done," said the trees. "Come, and be welcome!" Olof walked home whistling cheerfully; he felt as if the house were already built up round him. It was a great thing, enough to take up all his thoughts, and strong enough in itself to strengthen him anew. "Kyllikki, You will be surprised, no doubt, to hear from me again after so many years.
As they came near to Lemminkainen's home, Kyllikki saw that it looked dreary and poor, and began to weep again, but Lemminkainen comforted her, telling her that now he would build a splendid mansion for her, and so she grew cheerful once more. They drove up to his mother's cottage, and as they entered his mother asked him how he had fared.
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