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Or we could put in an application for a pardon, and that would probably come to the same thing in the end." "Why, if as that could be done...." "But it wouldn't do to try for a pardon at once. Have to wait a bit. What was I going to say ... you've been taking things down to my wife meat and cheese and things what?" "Why, as to that, Lensmand paid for all that before." "Did I, though?"
I reached Hersat the following day. At first I felt like passing by, it looked so big and fine a place; but after I had talked a bit with one of the farm-hands, I decided to try the Lensmand after all. I had worked for rich people before let me see, there was Captain Falkenberg of Ovrebo.... The Lensmand was a little, broad-shouldered man, with a long white beard and dark eyebrows.
It was late in August already, soon it would be September; were they to be spared through the winter? They lived in a constant watchfulness; every night they crept close together in their cave, thankful that the day had passed without event. And so the time went on until one day in October, when the Lensmand came up with a man and a bag. The Law stepped in through their doorway.
At this I had to confess to the Lensmand that I had not written to the Captain at all but had merely sent a bit of a note to one of the hands at Ovrebo; and even that letter could not have reached there yet, seeing it was only posted the night before. This left the Lensmand dumb, and he gave up unravelling things.
Breidablik, he called the place; and it was Lensmand Heyerdahl's lady that had found that splendid name. Isak hurries past the house, not wasting time on looking in, but he can see through the window that all the children are up already, early as it is. Isak has no time to lose, if he is to be back as far as this on the homeward journey next night, while the roads are hard.
He had been looking forward to Inger's delight when she saw it; now, Eleseus and Sivert played with it, and it was a joy to them. And Isak, watching them, forgot his trouble for the moment. Moreover, Oline had a message from the Lensmand; the State had at last given its decision in the matter of the land at Sellanraa. Isak had only to go down to the office and pay the amount.
The children like it." Isak went with him up over the hills; it was firm, good going on the higher ground, easier than below. Isak received a whole Daler. In that manner was it Lensmand Geissler left the place, and he did not come back. No great loss, folk said, he being looked on as a doubtful personage, an adventurer.
"What I was going to say has any one been here?" he asked. "Any one been? Why, who should there be?" "There's fresh footmarks outside. Men with boots on." "Why there's been no one but the Lensmand and one other." "What did they want?" "You know that without asking." "Did they come to fetch you?" "Fetch me? No, 'twas only about the sentence. The Lord is kind, 'tis not so bad as I feared."
It was noticeable that he consulted his assistant at every turn, and paid heed to what he said, which was not Geissler's way at all. That same assistant, moreover, must presumably have altered his own opinion, since he was now a would-be purchaser himself of lands from the common ground held by the State. "What about the price?" asked the Lensmand.
But they work it out by table. With all the ground as I entered it, and only so few loads of hay, so few bushels of potatoes, they'll say at once that it must be poor soil, cheap soil, you understand. I did my best for you, and you take my word for it, that'll do the trick. It's two and thirty thousand fellows of your stamp the country wants." The Lensmand nodded and turned to Inger.
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