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All as it should be with Axel Ström; a thought slowly, but sure in the end. And now he had got a horse. "So you've bought Brede's place?" said Isak. "Going to work it yourself?" "No, not for myself. I bought it for another man." "Ho!" "What d'you think; was it too much I gave for it?" "Why, no. Tis good land for a man that'll work it as it should."
But it was a bitter silence; and if Ashe himself failed in indignation, his mother's protesting heart supplied it amply. "Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Character in dem Strom, der Welt." "What does Lady Kitty do with herself here?" said Darrell, looking round him.
He carried a parcel of food in his hand, and his white waistcoat was no longer altogether clean. His good wife might have equipped him for the journey up this time out of the rest of the forty thousand she had once got who could say, perhaps she had. Anyhow, he was going back poor enough. He did not forget to look in at Axel Ström on the way down, and give the results of his thinking over.
The object of running about the fields with the blazing torches was to "drive away the wicked sower." Or it was done in honour of the Virgin, that she might preserve the fruits of the earth throughout the year and bless them. In neighbouring villages of Hesse, between the Rhön and the Vogel Mountains, it is thought that wherever the burning wheels roll, the fields will be safe from hail and strom.
"Take better cover, Pelle," said Emil; "it's going off directly!" "Where are Olsen and Strom?" said some one suddenly. The men looked at one another bewildered. "They'll be taking their midday sleep," said Emil. "They've been drinking something chronic this morning." "Where are they sleeping?" roared the foreman, and he sprang from his cover. They all had a foreboding, but no one wanted to say.
Astonished, Pelle raised his head and gazed at Emil uncomprehendingly. "What use is it if a poor devil tries to make his way up? He'll always be pushed down again!" said Olsen. "Just look at the 'Great Power'; could any one have had a better claim than he? No, the big folks don't allow us others to make our way up!" "And have we allowed it ourselves?" muttered Strom.
Ranchman Strom would swear to that because Downs was in his debt for value received in shape of whisky, and Strom was rabid at the idea of his getting away. In fine, as nothing but Downs was missing, it became a matter of speculation along toward tattoo as to whether Downs could have taken anything at all except possibly his own life.
"But the girl," she whispered, "what about Barbro herself?" "The girl Barbro," said the Lensmand, "she's under arrest now in Bergen. The law must take its course," said he. And he took the little body and went back again to the village.... Little wonder, then, that Axel Ström was anxious.
By the simplest means, merely by demanding an unreasonable price for a mine, he had succeeded in checking the entire development of the district. Ay, a strong man! Axel Ström from Maaneland could bear them out in this; he was the one who had last met Geissler. Brede's girl Barbro had had a lawsuit in the town, and come home acquitted; but Geissler, he had been there in court all the time.
With a sudden grip he seized something by the throat, opened the window, and threw it out. "So, that was it!" he said, relieved; "now there's none of the devil's brood left!" He reached after the bottle of brandy. "Leave it alone!" said Pelle, and he took the bottle away from him. His will increased in strength at the sight of the other's misery. Strom crept into bed again.
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