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When she came on board, she only cried, “Hide
me, hide me!” Then she tripped and fell down
upon the cargo. But the cavaliers begged her to be
calm and pushed from land at once, the barge
swinging out into midstream and drifting down
toward Karlstad just as the calash drove up to the
ferry.
Count Henrik and his mother were in the carriage,
and the Count sprang out to ask the ferry-man
if he had seen Countess Elizabeth, but as he
was rather embarrassed at being obliged to make
inquiries after a runaway wife, he only said, “There
is something missing.”
“Really?” said the ferryman.
“There is something missing; I ask you if ybu
have seen anything?”
“What is it you wish to know?”
“Well, that does not matter, but there is
something missing. I ask you if you have ferried
anybody over this morning.”
In this way he learned nothing, and Countess
Märta was obliged to talk to the man herself. She
found out in a minute that the girl they were in
search of was on board one of those barges which
were steadily gliding away.
“Who are the people on board those barges?”
she asked.
“Oh, they are the cavaliers, as we call them.”
“Oh!” said the Countess; “in that case your
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