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Chap. LIV.
THE MISSING TITLE-DEEDS.
365
the manor of Skovkloster with King Frederic II. for
that of Hillerødsholm, now Frederiksborg.
It’s a very pious act, no doubt, founding colleges and
hospitals after you’re dead with your money, but the
proceeding is seldom approved of by your nearest heirs
and relatives. It having come to the knowledge of “ the
disinherited ” that the title-deeds of the college were
mislaid, they forthwith brought an action against the
foundation for the recovery of the manor and its
dependencies. Most indefatigable search had been made into
every cupboard, every mouse-hole of the manor, without
effect; the lawsuit was going against the Academy;
and the rector, worried and sad (as he himself
relates), worn out with anxiety and useless racking of
his brain, fell asleep one evening in his arm-chair in
his homely bed-room of the old conventual building.
The moon shone bright, and suddenly visible in her
pale rays appeared before him the form of old Bridget
Giøe, wife of the founder; angry and exceeding
wrathful she looked, menacing with her hand, as much as
to say, “ What’s the use of my founding academies if
you spectacled fools go and lose the title-deeds ?—ugh !
you st-o-o-o-pid! ” and down, in her wrath, she banged
her clenched fist upon a small table by the fire-side,
making the very chamber ring with the noise, and then
disappeared. The tormented rector starts from his
chair alarmed; suddenly a thought strikes him; he
seizes the poker, and, following the example of the
ghost, bangs away at the table, till it flies shivered to
bits, and there, hidden in a secret drawer, lies forgotten
her to Denmark, and remained faithful to her fortunes to the last, for
which his property was confiscated by Frederic I.
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