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Updated: May 7, 2025
One's good name is dear to every one, and Mrs. Selvig felt that what had just taken place was a blow to the house. It was now nearly dark in the tap-room. Holman's dark figure had been moved on to the stretcher, which stood on the floor ready to be lifted, and a message had been sent to Mrs. Holman.
He took her by the shoulder, and whispered repeatedly, as loudly as respect for the dead would allow: "Silla! Silla! don't you hear? It's me Nikolai!" And he tried in vain two or three times to lift her up from the body. Meanwhile a policeman stood and examined Mrs. Selvig and the girls. He made notes, and took down the particulars of the death.
"As concerning the Apollo, she lies in a row of other ships up in Selvig Sound, and the ice is about a foot thick, and will be late in breaking up this year, they all prophesy: she is well looked after, and has a watchman on board, and storage room has been taken for her rigging in Pettersen's rigging-loft.
Silla knew him: he was the public-house bear, as he was called; he who turned people out for Mrs. Selvig. He was sitting silent on the bench. There was perfect stillness in the room; she heard only the drip from the tap of the brandy-cask down into the dish beneath, and saw, through the half-open door to the inner room, Mrs. Selvig and her two daughters bustling about on tiptoe.
Several of these silent, somewhat tottering, figures who had been thus aroused from their dull, Saturday evening drowsiness, had already disappeared from the scene. Bottles and glasses remained standing with their contents. "Might there not possibly be some other direct or indirect cause?" It was at first hesitatingly that Mrs. Selvig could think of anything of the sort.
And they must have a proper contrivance with a cloth over, so that the whole thing would look like a hospital stretcher a dead man with nothing but a tablecloth over him would make too great a commotion out in the street! It was something of this kind that Mrs. Selvig and her daughters were busy looking out and putting together, out of some green bed-hangings.
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