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“Let me say to you, Countess, that if God some
day should give me back my lostwealth and power,
I shall put them to better use than sharing them
with a worldly creature, a heartless, painted
monkey that mocks at the unfortunate.”
“In that you would do right, Cousin Kristoffer.”
Turning on his heel, Cousin Kristoffer walked
out of the house and went back to Ekeby. But the
happy genii did not accompany him now, the thrush
did not call to him, and he no longer saw the
smiling Spring.
He arrived just as the Easter shots were about
to be fired and the Easter witch was to be burned.
The Easter witch is a big straw doll with a rag
face, on which eyes, nose, and mouth are sketched
with charcoal. Dressed in witches’ garb, with the
long-handled oven-rake and broom placed beside
her, and the horn with oil hung round her neck,
she was all ready for her ride to hell.
Major Fuchs loaded his shotgun and emptied
it into the air. Whereupon a heap of dried branches
was lighted, the witch was cast on the pyre, and
was soon burning lustily. The cavaliers, in
accordance with a time-honored custom, did what they
could to destroy the power of evil.
Cousin Kristoffer, with sombre mien, stood looking
on. Suddenly he drew from his cuff the royal
letter and threw it on the fire. God alone knew what
was in his thought. Perhaps he imagined it was the
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