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than this to Helgesäter to-day. But there are two
others that have a share in this.”
“Who are they?”
“Sintram is one, and the other is yourself. You
are a stern woman. I know that many have tried to
speak to you about your husband.”
“That is true,” she answered.
Afterwards she asked him to tell her about the
drinking revel at Broby.
He told her all he could remember, and she listened
in silence. Still Captain Lennert lay unconscious.
The room was filled with mourners, and no
one thought of shutting out the troubled crowd. All
the doors stood open. All the rooms, the staircases,
and porches were filled with silent anxious men and
women, and far out into the yard they stood in
compact groups.
When the Colonel had finished his story, the
Captain’s wife raised her voice and said, “If there
are any cavaliers here, I beg them to go away. It is
hard for me to see them while I sit here by my
husband’s death-bed.”
Without a word more, the Colonel rose and went
out. Gösta did the same, and all the other
cavaliers who had followed Captain Lennert home; the
people made way awkwardly for the little group of
humbled men.
When they had gone, the Captain’s wife said,
“Will some of you who saw my husband during
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