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At last, Hardy left, and rode to Vandstrup Præstegaard, in time for a later dinner than usual Hardy told the Pastor of the practical advice Proprietor Jensen had given him, and the Pastor commented on it and approved. Frøken Helga asked if the Fru Jensen had given him any advice. "Yes," said Hardy, "and very good advice, about the management of the people and dairy."
They had then no idea of the difficulty of getting off the slime of an eel from their clothes, and what very pointed personal remarks would be made by Kirstin, when they returned to Vandstrup Præstegaard. The preparations for catching eels with lines was of immense interest to the boys. Hardy had several stakes made with sharpened ends.
If Fru Jensen had not appeared on the scene, it is possible that her husband's interest in the horses might have been prolonged indefinitely; but she conducted Frøken Helga Lindal into the house, introduced herself to John Hardy, and told the Pastor to tell the English groom where to put up his horses and where to wait until he should be required to return to Vandstrup Præstegaard.
Hardy galloped up, and found the man lying under the waggon evidently seriously injured. He was a workman called Nils Rasmussen, and had taken a load of turf, in company with another man with a similar load in another waggon, to a village near Vandstrup.
Robert Garth and a manservant were sent with the horses, a carriage, and the heavy impedimenta to Esbjerg by steamer, late in April, to prepare for the occupation of the mansion at Rosendal. Then came a letter from Vandstrup Præstegaard. "Herr Hardy, "We have heard that your servants are preparing Rosendal for your mother's residence there.
I was measured for clothes by a tailor in London, and Herr Hardy has given me many more things than necessary; but he is so kind I do not know what to say or do. I send my best love to you and Helga and Axel. "Your son, "Karl Lindal." Another letter came from Vandstrup Præstegaard. "Herr Hardy,
At last a letter came to John Hardy, from Vandstrup Præstegaard. "Herr Hardy, "My father desires me to say that they are proceeding with the work at Rosendal, and that there is nothing specially to report at present, as there is nothing being done contrary to your wishes, and there is no room for complaint on what is being done.
"I wait, therefore, the honour of your reply, and respectfully greet you. "Obediently, "Axel Steindal, "Prokuratør." "Many a one Owes to his country his religion, And in another, would as strongly grow Had but his mother or his nurse taught him so." The Complete Angler. The church at Vandstrup lay on rising ground from the river.
I await, therefore, the honour of your reply." John Hardy went to Copenhagen, and returned in a few days to Vandstrup Præstegaard. The next day the Pastor had received the Jyllands Post, the local newspaper.
Hardy, followed by Garth, had ridden on to within an English mile of Vandstrup, when he saw a waggon overturned, and a man lying underneath it. The horses were kicking in their harness, as they lay in the ditch by the roadside. The waggon was the same as is usually employed by the Danish farmer, for his farm work, and was heavy in construction.
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