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being. Oh, it is a human being, but no one has been
in there to see her.
The evening sun saw them on the other side of
the forest, but the girl whose understanding God
had taken, had not been found. What would they
do now? Would they go through the forest again?
It is dangerous to do so in the dark, there are
bottomless marshes there and precipitous cliffs. And
how are they to find in the dark what they could
not find in the daylight?
“Let us go to Ekeby!” cried one of the crowd.
“Let us go to Ekeby!” they all shouted together.
“Let us go to Ekeby!”
“Let us ask those cavaliers why they set their
dogs upon one whose understanding God had taken,
why they drove an idiot to despair! Our tired
children are crying, our clothes are torn, the oats hang
in the rafters while the kernels fall from the ears,
the potatoes are rotting in the ground, our horses
are running wild, our cows are uncared for, we
ourselves are tired to death—and it is all their fault.
Let us go to Ekeby and call them to account! Let
us go to Ekeby!
“During all the year every kind of evil has come
upon us peasants. God’s hand rests heavy upon us—and
the winter will bring us the famine. Who is
it that God’s hand is seeking? It was not the Broby
parson. His prayer did reach the ear of God. Who,
if not these cavaliers! Let us go to Ekeby!
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