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awful to live there for him whose mind was filled
with evil memories.
She felt very sorry for the old man who sat there
with the dark vagabonds as his only companions.
“Anna Lisa,” she said, “let us return. They were
kind to us in there, but I behaved badly. I will talk
to the old man of happier things.” And pleased at
having found some one to comfort, she returned to
the hut.
“I am afraid,” she said. “I think that Gösta
Berling is somewhere in the forest here, and he
intends to take his own life. It is therefore important
that he should be found and hindered from doing
so. Anna Lisa and I think we have seen him sometimes,
but he has disappeared again. He keeps in
the neighborhood of the place where the Nygård
girl perished. I have been thinking that I need not
go all the way to Ekeby to find help. There are
many strong men sitting here who could easily
capture him.”
“Go your way, men,” cried the woman. “When
the Countess does not think herself too great to
beg US forest folk to do her a service, go at once.”
The men rose and went to search.
Old Jan Hök sat motionless and gazed before
him with dull eyes. Frightfully gloomy and hard
he looked as he sat there. The young wife found
no words to say to him. Then she noticed that a
sick child lay on a sheaf of straw, and that one of
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