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Updated: July 6, 2025
He stayed away till evening. He passed the two new clearings that had been started below Sellanraa, and talked to the men there; went right down to Maaneland to see what Axel Ström had got done that year. Nothing very great, it seemed; not as much as he might have wished, but he had put in some good work on the land. Geissler took an interest in this place, too, and asked him: "Got a horse?"
As for that Barbro case, Oline was displeased, ay, disappointed was Oline. Both of them acquitted! That Brede's girl Barbro should be let off when Inger Sellanraa had got eight years was not to Oline's taste at all; she felt an unchristian annoyance at such favouritism. But the Almighty would look to things, no doubt, in His own good time!
'You've a woman here, said I, that ought to be out of the place, and back in her home Inger Sellanraa. 'Inger? said he; 'why, yes. She's a good sort I wish we could keep her for twenty years, said he. 'Well, you won't, said I. 'She's been here too long already. 'Too long? says he.
Axel had no timber to speak of, not growing close, but there were some heavy firs scattered about here and there on the outskirts of his land, and he marked out those on the side toward Sellanraa, to have the shortest way to cart his timber up to the sawmill.
The engineer had offered to send a couple of men down with it to Sellanraa next morning, but Isak thanked him 'twas more than worth his while. He was thinking of his own folk; 'twould be a fine surprise for them to see him come walking down with a smithy on his back. But 'twas Isak was surprised after all. A horse and cart turned into the courtyard just as he reached home.
Strange, she found nothing ridiculous in the fact that she was mentioned in the will; after all, it was an honour of a sort; none of her likes were named there with her! The Sellanraa folk took the blow with patience; they were not altogether unprepared. True, Inger could not understand it Uncle Sivert that had always been so rich....
On Sundays, there was a crowd of people coming up all the way from the village; ay, even Axel Ström, who had no time to throw away, turned off from his proper road along the telegraph line to look at the place. Hardly a soul now but has seen the mine and its wonders. And at last Inger herself, Inger from Sellanraa, puts on her best, gold ring and all, and goes up to the hills.
When all the workmen were gone, and the stone building was finished, and Sellanraa was all forsaken and still, then came a critical time for Inger; she cried a deal, and suffered much. She blamed none but herself for it all, and she was deeply humbled.
Leopoldine is big and grown up now; she can knit stockings and mittens for the winter while she is watching the herds. Born in Trondhjem, was Leopoldine, and came to Sellanraa five years old.
I'll send you those machines all right." And Geissler went. Would he ever come again? The rest of the workmen came down from the mine. Work is stopped. The fjeld lies dead again. The building at Sellanraa, too, is finished now.
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