CHAPTER XVIII
The first thing was that Finn had his former room arranged so that he and Hans could be there when Hans came to see him.
There was nothing said about it. For it was taken as a matter of course that no stranger should set foot in the old room. But Cordt at once thought that his hope in Hans was shattered.
Sometimes Finn was glad when Hans was there.
They could never talk together.
Hans’ thoughts were constantly at work on plans and difficulties, the least of which seemed quite unsurmountable to Finn, and he had not the remotest idea as to what passed in his friend’s brain. He talked to all men alike and his words were all questions or answers or opinions.
So it was Hans who spoke and, wholly taken up with himself as he was, he seldom noticed that Finn fell a-dreaming.
When Finn could get him to set to work on some calculation or other, he himself sat delighted and watched Hans while he struggled with figures and drawings.