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Updated: June 15, 2025
Both the trader at the shore station and Aronsen up at Storborg would be willing to contribute privately and secretly; funds devoted to such a purpose now would be repaid in the long run. The end of it was that two men were deputed to call on Geissler and take up the matter with him. And they were expected back shortly.
Little Andresen is no bad worker on the land in Eleseus' service; true, he has had Sivert from Sellanraa with horses, but he has done a deal of work on his own account, draining bogs, and hiring a man himself to set the ditches with stone. No need of buying fodder at Storborg that year, and next, like as not, Eleseus would be keeping a horse of his own.
Isak has to go down to the village one day and why not? What for? "Nay, I don't know," says he. But he gets the cart cleaned up all fine, puts in the seat, and drives off, and a deal of victuals and such put in, too and why not? 'Twas for Eleseus at Storborg. Never a horse went out from Sellanraa but there was something taken down to Eleseus.
Teams of horses driving up over the moors, carting up houses for the new man come to settle in the wilds; load after load, for days on end. Dump the things down on a spot that is to be called Storborg; 'twill answer to its name, no doubt, in time. There are four men already at work up in the hills, getting out stone for a wall and two cellars. Carting loads, carting new loads.
And they harnessed up, and Rebecca had the maid Jensine to look after her on the way, and Sivert said never a word against that either. While they are away, it so happens that Aronsen's man, his chief clerk, from Storborg, comes up the road. What does this mean?
And look at Storborg, the new trader's place there was a business on a proper scale! This Aron must be a wizard, a devil of a fellow; he had learned somehow beforehand of the mining operations to come, and was on the spot all ready, with his shop and store, to make the most of it. Business? He did business enough for a whole State ay, enough for a king!
They stuck to Eleseus both of them, and one day the three drove down to Storborg to see the wonder with their own eyes. But once there was a prospect of selling, Aronsen became a different man; he wasn't pressed to get rid of it, not at all. If he did go away, the place could stand as it was; 'twas a first-rate holding, a "cash down" place, there'd be no difficulty in selling it any time.
There were dark forebodings and discouragement among the village folk; money was scarcer, wages were reduced, things were very quiet at the trading station at Storborg. What did it all mean?
So it was, then, that Aronsen cherished a flicker of hope, and thought he could afford to stand on his dignity with any who offered to buy up Storborg. But it was not to last. A week later the deputation returned home with a flat refusal.
Even Aronsen came back again, Aronsen the trader, who had set his mind on buying back Storborg from Eleseus. "No," said Eleseus. "It's not for sale." "You'll sell, I suppose, if you're offered enough?" "No." No, Eleseus was not going to sell Storborg.
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