"'Tell them that my Millennium hangs in the east like a dawn. But how shall it rise in the sky and give light to the world, as long as ye let Death take the Great Beast in his service?
"'For the Great Beast is War.'"...
Lotta Hedman came to herself. She looked round and saw a close circle of people. Many faces shone with a great content.
"Where have I been?" she said. "What have I said? Has God at last spoken through my mouth?"
Tears of joy and thankfulness flowed from her eyes.
[CONCLUSION]
NEARLY a year had passed when, one day, a woman in mourning came driving to the vicarage at Algeröd.
Her coming occasioned no great surprise, for though it had never become generally known that she still lived, there were yet a few of those visiting Hånger who had seen and recognized her, and the rumour had spread.
She had never been separated from her husband by any legal act. Sven Elversson's illness had forced him to live quietly, without any excitement, and the others had done all they could to spare him.
Now that she had come, she went very quietly up to one of the small rooms and made herself at home there.