The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-01-17

Hssaby fam, time after time. "I don t
think there will be ANY more beating" he
said
There led, as above mentioned, only
one pathway up to the Husahy grazing
grounds, hut oae who dared might get up
there, though he did not 90 the beaten wav.
BY rowing round small land ship and
mooriug ut the foot of the clf, one might
get up, though the wall was so steep
that it had seldom heen trod'ien by the
goat, who else is not very particular about
her way.
Saturday came and Tore ~as out doors
the whole day. Never was such day !.
The sun played so the woods danced, and
every now and then some one sang and
called upon the cliff. lie ut in front of
the door when dusk came and dewy mist
crept upward along the hills. He looked
toward the cliff; all was quiet there.
He looked toward Husaby farm, and then
he jumped into the boat and 70 we'd around
the slip.
Upon the cliff, before the hut, sat
Aslaug, her days work done. She thought
that since Tore could not come, all the
more would 9th. people come, and she
let loose the dog and Strolled away. She
sat where she could look down into the
valley, but there stood :he mist, and
somehow she did not like either to look
down there just nov. Then she moved
away, and without any more thought she
came and sat On the opposite side of the
cliff, where she could look down over the
Fjord. There came peace to her from
the long view of the water.
While she was sitting there she thought
she should like to sing, and she chose a
song with long notes and u burden. which
f1oated far away into the cain evening.
She found that she liked to hear herself
the first verse, she began the second with
louder voice. But when she had sung
that verse it seemed to her as if some
body was answering her from far below.
"Dear me, what can it be2' she thought,
and stepped out on the uttermost ledge,
aud threw her arms around tall birch
tree which stood there and trembed over
the abyss. She looked downward, but
she saw nothing. The Ford lay quietly
asleep; not bird WAS stirring. She sat
down again and took up her song. But
this time somebody answered with the
same tune and mach nearer. As!aug
sprang up aud leaned once more over the
ledge. Thea she saw boat moored at
the foot of the cliff, and so far below that
it looked like nutshell. She drew the
eyes upward and caught sight OF a red
cap climbing the naked wall "Nho can
that be2" she asked, and made long
leap backward. She dared not answer,
for she knew full well who it was. She
threw herself down on the green sward
and took hold of the grass with both her
hands, rs if it were she who must pot
miss the grasp. The roots loosened; she
shreked, thrust her hands deeper into tho
sod, and prayed to God Almighty to help
him. Then she felt that this WAS truly
to try God, and could not be expected to
he granted. But only this one time"
she burst out, "help him, oh! only this
one time." She clasped the dog as if it
were Tore she would hold fast, rolled
with it over the green sward and thought
that these minutes would never come to
an end.
But suddenly the dog sprang up, start
ed toward the ledge, wagged his tail and
barked; turned back to Aslaug, jumped
with his fore-pa"s into her lap and
barked twisted round again and barked
with frantic restle,sness, while "a red cap
srose above the ledge, and Tore leaped to
her bosom.
There ne lay for whole minute.
Neither of them spoke, and when they be-
gan to talk there was not much wit in
what they said.
But old Junt, when he heard about it,
said word which was not unwitty. He
threw his fist down on the table, aud
Numbered through the room, There is
might in that boy, aud the girl shall be
his"