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"You're right about its being a good offer," the old man agreed, "but he says that he has already made a deal else where." "I wonder if he has really considered what it is that he's losing?" said Sven Persson, and walked on.
"He is thinking of a hound that raises a hare and allows some one else to catch it," remarked the innkeeper's son, insinuatingly. Karin turned blood red, but refilled the coffee cups. "Berger Sven Persson and the rest of you will have to be satisfied with plain coffee," she said. "We no longer serve spirits to any one on this farm." "Nor do I at my home," said the magistrate approvingly.
"Sven Larsen!" yelled Wentworth. "That half-wit! Why, he hasn't got sense enough to come in out of the rain!" "Maybe ye're right," admitted McNabb, "but that isn't what I hired him to do." With an oath, Wentworth pushed past Cameron and started for the door to find himself suddenly face to face with Sven Larsen. "Get out of my way, damn you!" he cried.
The inspector and the innkeeper's son kept quiet; they understood that Sven Persson had scored heavily. The magistrate straightway began to discourse on temperance and its salutary effects. Karin listened to him with interest, and agreed with all that he said.
Sven Hedin was the most successful of the explorers in Tibet, traversing wholly unknown districts. Unknown regions on the American continent, in South America, in far north-western North America, and in Labrador, have been visited. The same is true of the interior of Australia. Nansen who in 1893 started to drift in the Fram across the polar regions.
From her cabin port upon the Kincaid, Jane Clayton had seen her husband rowed to the verdure-clad shore of Jungle Island, and then the ship once more proceeded upon its way. For several days she saw no one other than Sven Anderssen, the Kincaid's taciturn and repellent cook. She asked him the name of the shore upon which her husband had been set.
She's had four pretty hard days on the trail, an' she'd be the better for a comfortable bunk." "The lass!" exclaimed Murchison. "Jean! Here!" Strong fingers gripped McNabb's arm, and he stared in astonishment into the face of Sven Larsen. The loose-lipped, vapid expression was gone, and the blue-gray eyes stared into his own with burning intensity. "You don't mean ? Why, Oskar lad!" "Sh sh.
Believe me, there's somethin' comin' off here between now an' summer, an' I'm goin' to ask for the detail!" Murchison laughed. "Come on back, Downey, and you'll see the fun. An' I ain't so sure you won't be needed in your official capacity. But don't bother your head over Sven Larson. Remember this: it takes a smart man to play the fool, an' play it right. That's why John McNabb sent him up here.
Then Halvor said in a voice vibrant with feeling: "Karin, when I received your father's watch, I felt that nothing greater could have happened to me; but this thing which you have just done transcends everything." Whereupon Berger Sven Persson, who was in many ways an excellent man, arose.
"Ay tank," said Sven Anderssen, "it blow purty soon purty hard," and then he turned and left the cabin. Though Jane Clayton doubted the cook's ability to be of any material service to her, she was nevertheless deeply grateful to him for what he already had done.
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