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After once refusing to surrender it to Sandgoist Hulda would have done better to turn a deaf ear to her mother's entreaties." The brother and sister could find nothing to say in reply. In giving the ticket to Dame Hansen, Hulda had been prompted by a filial sentiment that was certainly to be commended rather than censured.
It is simply a business transaction, I repeat, and I have come to propose a good trade to you." "You will have some difficulty in coming to an understanding with my sister, sir," replied Joel, ironically. "When you talk business to her she replies with sentiment." "That is all idle talk, young man," replied Sandgoist.
And springing upon Sandgoist he seized him by the shoulders and hustled him out-of-doors in spite of his protests and resistance. Sylvius Hogg reached Dal on the evening of the following day. He did not say a word about his journey, and no one knew that he had been to Bergen. As long as the search was productive of no results he wished the Hansen family to remain in ignorance of it.
This went on for about an hour without producing any incident of particular interest, though people noticed that number 9672 had not been drawn, which would have taken away all chance of its winning the capital prize. "That is a good omen for Sandgoist!" remarked one of the professor's neighbors.
They paused and listened; Dame Hansen was speaking now, but in entreating tones. "Let us go in," remarked Joel. Hulda entered with a heavy heart; Joel was trembling with suppressed anger and impatience. Sandgoist sat enthroned in the big arm-chair. He did not even take the trouble to rise on the entrance of the brother and sister. He merely turned his head and stared at them over his spectacles.
"Yes; and consequently such a reaction has followed the late madness that it is said that this Sandgoist who purchased the ticket to speculate upon it has been unable to find a purchaser." "So I have heard." "And yet, if that rascally usurer should win the grand prize, what a shame it would be!" "A shame, most assuredly, Mr. Benett; the word is not too strong a shame, unquestionably."
"You should first have applied to your personal friends or the friends of your family. They would not have refused to assist you, either by purchasing the mortgage of Sandgoist, or by loaning you the money to pay it." "I have no friends of whom I could ask such a favor." "Yes, you have, Dame Hansen. I know at least one person who would have done it without the slightest hesitation."
"If Ole Kamp had been here, he would not have hesitated to surrender his ticket to Sandgoist," replied Dame Hansen. "That is quite possible," replied Sylvius Hogg; "but certainly no other person had a right to do it, and what will you say to him if he has not perished and if he should return to-morrow, or this very day?" "Ole will never return," replied Dame Hansen, gloomily.
Hulda was about to make Sandgoist the same answer she had given to all offers of this kind, though his remarks had not been addressed directly to her, when Joel checked her. "Before replying, I should like to ask Monsieur Sandgoist if he knows to whom this ticket belongs?" he said haughtily. "To Hulda Hansen, I suppose."
Sandgoist shrugged his shoulders, but without being at all disconcerted, for like a man who is sure of his arguments, he replied: "When I spoke of the price I was willing to pay for the ticket, I ought to have told you that I could offer inducements which Hulda Hansen can hardly reject if she takes any interest in the welfare of her family." "Indeed?"
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