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sobs, and the trees threatened them with angry
gestures, and all the grass and every herb sorrowed
over the lost glory of Ekeby.
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But why so many words and so much astonish-
ment? “Here comes the iron from Ekeby!” There
it was, loaded on barges on the Klarälf shore, ready
to sail down the river, ready to be weighed on the
iron weights at Karlstad, ready to be taken by a
Vänern sloop to Göteborg. So Ekeby’s honor was
saved after all.
But how was it possible? At Ekeby there were
no more than fifty tons of iron, and at the other
foundries none at all. How was it possible, then,
that the heavily loaded barges were to carry such
an immense amount of iron to the weights at
Karlstad? Well, you must ask the cavaliers that
question. They were all on board the heavy ugly
vessels, for they intended to take the iron themselves
from Ekeby to Göteborg. None of the usual bargemen,
not a single ordinary mortal, was to accompany
them. The cavaliers took possession with
provision baskets and wine bottles, with their
violins and guns and fishing-rods and playing-cards.
They intended to do everything for their beloved
iron, and they would not desert it before it was
unloaded on the quay at Göteborg. They were
determined to load and unload, to manage the sails
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