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The sexton and some young men were going
to flay the bear. They went to the grindstones to
sharpen their knives, and the other people went
home and to bed, and Major Fuchs was left alone
with the dead bear.
Then he went off to the church again, turned
the key once more in the keyhole, climbed once
more the narrow, crooked stairs, woke the
sleeping pigeons, and entered the belfry.
Afterwards, when the bear was flayed under the
Major’s supervision, they found a parcel of notes
worth five hundred dalers in his jaws. It was
impossible to account for their presence there, but
after all, it was no ordinary bear, and as the sexton
had killed it, the money was clearly his.
When this became known, little Faber, too,
began to understand what a glorious deed the sexton
had done, and he declared he would be proud to
own him as a brother-in-law.
On Friday evening Major Fuchs returned to
Ekeby, after having graced an assembly at the
sexton’s held in honor of the dead bear, and another
at the organist’s in honor of the new engagement.
He walked along with a heavy heart; he felt no
delight over his vanquished enemy, and took no
pleasure in the splendid bear-skin which the
sexton had presented to him.
Perhaps some might imagine that he mourned
because little Fröken Faber belonged to another?
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