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Updated: July 6, 2025
Maybe he was not in the best of humour just now, that same engineer, but he had tried all along to keep away the feeling of gloom that had fallen upon the village folk and the settlers round and here was his chance, with no less persons than the Margrave of Sellanraa and the great trader from Storborg on the spot. He explained the nature of the ore and the rocks in which it was found.
It was a family affair, some relatives who had bought the place as a speculation; they had not troubled to secure the whole range, all the miles to the next valley, no; they had but taken over a patch of ground from Isak Sellanraa and Geissler, and then sold it again. And what was to be done now?
Eleseus goes a long way round, and he too passes by; what was he to do there, at home, at his trading station and store? The two in the cart get to Sellanraa at nightfall; Eleseus is close at their heels. Sees Sivert come out in the yard, all surprised to see Jensine, and the two shake hands and laugh a little; then Sivert takes the horse out and leads it to stable.
"Bring them down, then, the pair of them, to help with the cartage here. We'll pay you well." "Why," says Sivert, "that's none so bad, dare say. But we're pressed just now, and can't spare the time." "What? Can't spare the time to make money!" says the foreman. But they had not always time at Sellanraa, there was much to do on the place.
Time has passed, the two last years had been long; there had been much that was good at Sellanraa, and a deal that was not eyah, Herregud! And now here was another man clearing ground in the wilds. Isak knew the place well; it was one of the kindlier spots he had noted himself on his way up, but he had gone on farther.
And at that Gustaf had to bring it out; he was one against all, a whole army. "Oh, 'twas a good thing you found it," said Inger, and made haste to say good-bye to her escort. She drew nearer Sellanraa, saw the many roofs of the buildings; it was her home that lay there.
Listening now, for any sound of blasting about; they are hoping to come on the mine, and meet with folk some time that day. The work should have got so far by now; a good way up from the water towards Sellanraa. But never a sound of blasting anywhere. They march till noon, meeting never a soul; but here and there they come upon holes in the ground, where men have been digging for trial.
Couldn't Sivert have gone?" says Eleseus. Ay, Eleseus knew no better, nothing better than to think Sivert would go down to the smith's to fetch Jensine, after she had thought so much of herself as to leave Sellanraa! No, 'twas all awry with the haymaking the year before. Inger had put in all she could, as she had promised.
Now and again the monotony of the wilderness was broken by the sight of a passing Lapp, or by something happening to one of the animals on the place, then all would be as before. Once there came a number of men at once; they rested at Sellanraa, and had some food and a dish of milk; they asked Isak and Oline about the path across the hills; they were marking out the telegraph line, they said.
There is a makeshift roof of turf put on for the winter; the great space beneath is divided into rooms, bright apartments, a great salon in the middle and large rooms at either end, as if it were for human beings. Here Isak once lived in a turf hut together with a few goats there is no turf hut to be seen now at Sellanraa. Loose boxes, mangers, and bins are fitted up.
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