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He stood before the Lady of Ekeby and defied
her.
“I took the crows and threw them against the
wall; dare you say I did wrong?”
“Out with you, Captain!”
“Sh—you woman!—to offer Kristian Bergh
crows to eat! If I did the right thing, I would take
you and your seven d——”
“A thousand devils! Kristian Bergh, don’t you
dare to swear! No one swears here but myself!”
“Do you think I fear you, you witch? Do you
think I don’t know how you got your seven
foundries?”
“Silence, Captain.”
“When Altringer died, he gave them to you,
because he had been your lover.”
“Will you be silent?”
“Because you had been such a faithful wife,
Margarita Samzelius; and the Major took the gift, and
let you manage the foundries, and pretended not
to understand, and Satan backed the whole affair
but this is the end of it.”
Margarita Samzelius sank into her chair, she was
pale and trembling, and it was with a low, strange
voice she reiterated, “Yes, this is the end of it, and
it is your work, Kristian Bergh!”
At that tone Kristian Bergh shivered, his face
changed, and anxious tears filled his eyes.
“I am drunk,” he cried. “I don’t know what I
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