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And when in the morning we paid an honest reckoning and received a hearty "lycksame resa!" Thence to Kongsberg we had fast stations and civilised people; the country was open, well settled, and cultivated, the scenery pleasant and picturesque, and, except the insufferable heat and dust, we could complain of nothing.
They haunted her even when she rejoined her mother, Resa, and Esbern Lynge. She prepared the noonday meal, but her step was heavy and her hand unwilling. The fare seemed coarse, the cottage looked dark and poor.
Say, where are you going?" "To St. Resa." "In South Peru?" "Yes." "What do you expect to do there?" "Going to apply for a situation as engineer on a railroad." "Whew! I heard a man say this morning they were offering big pay. Let me go with you, Jack? You will do this for old time's sake? I will be fireman." Jack's first thought was to refuse the other's company.
Resa railroad was again without the men to run the train, which had been stalled for weeks. In fact, the engineer and his helper who had succeeded them, had not made one complete trip, the fireman having blown out the boiler soon after leaving De la Pama. In this dilemma the officials hailed the appearance of the boys with unfeigned delight.
"No," said little Resa, rather fearfully, "you know Kong Tolv never lets any mortal king pass the bridge of Skjelskör." "Kong Tolv! what, more stories about Kong Tolv!" laughed the merry maiden; "I never saw him; I wish I could see him, for then I might believe in thy tales, little one." "Hush, hush!
I was not aware that shooting and engineering went together." "They do in the case of the St. Resa road, Jack." "Tell me about it, Francis. I am interested." "Then I can take out that interest shortly. The road runs through debatable ground from St. Resa to de la Pama. Not an inch of it but what is being hotly contested.
The mother frowned, and Esbern Lynge looked sorrowful. "I wish I could give her all she longs for," sighed the young man, as they proceeded on their way, his duteous arm supporting the widow, while Hyldreda and Resa went bounding onward before them; "She is as beautiful as a queen I would that I could make her one."
"It is Kong Tolv rolling himself in the sunshine," cried the trembling child; "Look away, my sister, lest he should hear us." Again Hyldreda's fearless laugh made music through the still air, and she kept looking back until they passed from the open road into the gloom of the oak wood. "It is strange that thou shouldst be so brave," said Resa once more.
Hyldreda was talking merrily of the grand sight she had just seen, and describing to little Resa the gilded coach, the prancing horses, with glittering harness. "Oh! but it was a goodly train, as it swept down toward the river. Who knows? Perhaps it may have been the king and queen themselves."
Resa railroad, a proposition which met the other boy's hearty approval the moment he learned the wages he was likely to get His first question was: "Do yeou s'pose they will have me?" "Gladly. It isn't a question of that, but whether you have the sand to stand up in a spot where you are likely to lose your life any minute."
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