“I? No, indeed, 'twas Fruen herself one day.”
“Oh? Well, well. I only wondered how it was they had gone.”
Relieved—relieved the Captain was to hear it.
As he was leaving he told Ragnhild to say I was not to go away from Øvrebø till he returned.
XIV
No, I didn't go away.
I worked on, tramped through the weariest days of my life to their end, and finished laying the pipes. It was a bit of a change for us all on the place the first time we could draw water from a tap, and we were none the worse for something new to talk about for a while.
Lars Falkenberg had left us. He and I had got rid of all disagreement between us at the last, and were as we had been in the old days when we were mates and tramped the roads together.