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birches, associated in memory with beautiful love’s
young dream.
But Death now lurked there, and the creatures
of the night saw him. Evening after evening, the
people at the manor heard the fox howl warnings
of his arrival. The black snake crawled along the
sand walk up to the very house; he could not voice
his warning, but they understood that he came as
a forerunner of the mighty deliverer. In the apple
tree outside the window of the Captain’s wife’s room
the owl hooted. For all Nature feels the presence
of Death, and trembles.
It happened that the Judge of Munkerud and
his family were returning late one night from a
party at the rectory in Bro, and when driving past
Berga they noticed a candle burning in the window
of the guest-chamber. They saw plainly the yellow
flame and the white candle and, wondering, they
afterwards told of seeing the burning candle in the
light summer night.
The jolly young girls at the manor laughed, and
said the Judge’s people must have seen it in a trance,
for they had not a candle in the house, the last one
having been used up in March. The Captain swore
that no one had occupied the guest-room in weeks;
but his wife was silent and pale as a ghost, for she
knew that the white candle, which burned with so
bright a flame, was always seen when some
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