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Updated: June 24, 2025
John Hardy changed his clothes and came down to the room occupied by Pastor Lindal and his family as a sitting-room, and found Frøken Helga playing on an old piano to the Pastor, who was smoking in his easy chair. She at once ceased.
Hardy, her son, and two women-servants travelled overland to Jutland, from Flushing. Robert Garth met them at the railway station, and drove them to the parsonage. Parson Lindal was at the door, and welcomed Mrs. Hardy with much old-fashioned politeness. "Welcome, and glad to see you," he said in English to her, while he warmly greeted Hardy in Danish.
Hardy read in Frøken Helga's face that what he had said was what had her approval, and that he had said enough. "You appear to look at Frøken Helga Lindal, Herr Hardy," said Frøken Jaeger; "are you engaged to her?" "No," said Hardy. "But what do you think of her?" "That she is an excellent daughter," replied Hardy. "And that she would make an excellent wife?" said Frøken Jaeger.
"Excellent!" said Helga, using a Danish expression. "But it will be a long day for my father." "We should get to Horsens at six, and we can telegraph to the hotel to be ready to receive us at that time," said Hardy. "But the next day is only nineteen English miles to Veile, and would be less fatiguing." "I like to be tired, Hardy, by outdoor exercise," said Pastor Lindal.
Then Hardy knew that Kapellan Holm was nowhere, and his face grew bright, and he was ready for the map of Jutland. Hardy explained his idea of driving to Esbjerg, and the extraordinary proposition was that he proposed to take not only Karl, but Helga Lindal herself and Axel. "I should so like it," said Helga, "but "
But what interested me was the earnestness with which you were listened to: every word was heard by every one of your congregation, and I could see felt." "It was not always so," said Pastor Lindal. "I have won the sympathy and friendship of the children of my parish by years of work amongst them.
"A thousand thanks, Herr Hardy," said Karl and Axel, with delight. "You have already prepared the way for performing your part of our contract, Herr Hardy," said the Pastor; "I can only hope I shall execute mine so well. With the boys' hearts in the work the rest is easy;" and Pastor Lindal regarded his manly and self-possessed guest with interest.
At length the time came for his dance with Frøken Helga Lindal, and as they stood up the personal beauty of both was remarked. Helga's elastic movement on Hardy's arm, the ease with which she danced in perfect time, and her bright manner had its effect on Hardy. He was not quite sure but that he had just told Frøken Jaeger a story, in saying that he did not like dancing.
They wandered through the grounds and over the house and buildings with renewed interest. "Do you understand the management of such a property, Hardy?" inquired Pastor Lindal, who, since the Rasmussen incident, rarely addressed him otherwise than by his name simply.
If Fru Jensen had not appeared on the scene, it is possible that her husband's interest in the horses might have been prolonged indefinitely; but she conducted Frøken Helga Lindal into the house, introduced herself to John Hardy, and told the Pastor to tell the English groom where to put up his horses and where to wait until he should be required to return to Vandstrup Præstegaard.
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