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"Yes, boy, you shall have it all your life I will put it down in my will. Do you hear, my son? and you are to put it down in yours as well: a penny a week to Peter as long as he lives." Herr Sesemann nodded his assent and joined in the laughter. Peter looked again at the present in his hand to make sure he was not dreaming, and then said, "Thank God!"
There were traces of climbers to be seen on all sides; the narrow footpaths seemed to run in every direction, and Herr Sesemann began to wonder if he was on the right one, and whether the hut lay perhaps on the other side of the mountain. He looked round to see if any one was in sight of whom he could ask the way; but far and wide there was not a soul to be seen or a sound to be heard.
And then suddenly one morning quite early Herr Sesemann said to me but I think it was partly the doctor's doing but perhaps it's all in the letter " and Heidi jumped down and fetched the roll and the letter and handed them both to her grandfather. "That belongs to you," said the latter, laying the roll down on the bench beside him.
She could see only one way out of this disastrous state of affairs, and that was for the tutor to declare that it was impossible for the two to learn together without detriment to Clara, who was so far ahead of the other; that would be a valid excuse for getting rid of the child, and Herr Sesemann would be sure to agree to the child being sent home again, but she dared not do this without his order, since he was aware that by this time the companion had arrived.
"I mean one so at home among the living creatures of the high, pure mountain regions, that she would be like some idealistic being from another world among us." "And what could Clara do with such an idealistic being as you describe, Fraulein Rottenmeier." "I am not joking, Herr Sesemann, the matter is a more serious one than you think; I have been shockingly, disgracefully imposed upon."
"Yes, I know, it's enough to make you out of patience with me; but you must understand, dear friend" and Herr Sesemann laid his hand imploringly on the doctor's shoulder "that I feel I have not the courage to refuse the child what I have been promising her all along, and for months now she has been living on the thought of it day and night.
"Oh! then that was it?" exclaimed Sebastian, for now a light was thrown on the ghostly visitations. "Yes, that was it! and you are a coward, and you may tell John he is the same, and the whole household a pack of idiots." And with this Herr Sesemann went off to his study to write a letter to Alm-Uncle. Sebastian remained standing, feeling rather foolish.
Then Herr Sesemann returned to Clara, and begged her to have no more fear, as he would soon find out all about the ghost and put an end to it. Punctually at nine o'clock, after the children had gone to bed and Fraulein Rottenmeier had retired, the doctor arrived. He was a grey-haired man with a fresh face, and two bright, kindly eyes.
White with terror, and hardly able to make her voice heard, Heidi answered, "I don't know." But now the doctor stepped forward. "This is a matter for me to see to, Sesemann; go back to your chair. I must take the child upstairs to her bed." And with that he put down his revolver and gently taking the child by the hand led her upstairs.
She has not the smallest notion about anything! not the slightest idea that she ought to sit still and listen while her lessons are going on. But where is the child who has caused all this trouble? Surely she has not run away! What would Herr Sesemann say to me?" She ran out of the room and down the stairs.
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