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Where are you going, you people, where are you
going?”
“We are searching,” they answered; “we have
searched for two days, we will search this day also,
more than that we cannot do. We are going to search
through Björne wood and the fir-covered hills west
of Ekeby.”
The procession first started from Nygård, a poor
district among the eastern hills. The lovely girl with
the thick black hair and red cheeks had not been
seen for eight days. The broom girl whom Gösta
Berling was to have made his bride was lost in the
forests. No one had seen her for eight days.
Then the Nygård folk started to search for her;
and every one they met joined them, out of every
cottage some one came to help the searchers.
New arrivals often asked: “Nygård men, what
is the cause of it all? Why did you let the girl go
alone in such unknown paths? The forest is deep,
and God had taken away her understanding.”
“No one would harm her,” they answered; “she,
too, would harm no one. She went about as securely
as a child. Who can be safer than she whom God
must Himself guard? She has never lost her way
before.”
Thus the train of searchers had gone over the
eastern forests that divide Nygård from the plain. On
the third day it was passing Bro church, going to
the woods west of Ekeby.
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