The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-08-08

away we saw nay upon the stan aV
the station of the nation of the Admin
istrator, and the sound Of four guns
told a ship was come from Copenha-
gen. We saw two men land from the
ship one was cle,k and the other
Dane, come to take the place OF the
Administrator who wished to go to
his home again lie was the fairest of
all men we had ever seen, and his
smile was like the smile eff a woman.
His name was 1lialmar.
In a month the ship sailed and the
new Administrator was in his place
We found him kinder than others had
been, aud the kayakers told that new
er before had they received so much
coffee and tobacco and other articles
when they sold the blubber and skins
of the seal. lie had kind words for
the little children, and at his house
gave them cakes and sugar plums. BY
this we thought he had children of his
own, but be never had been married,
and so we found by what had happen
ed.
1t was in October that he came, and
all things went well except that we |
heard nothing of Jens until December,
when the ice became so bad along the |
coast that we feared the seals would be |
driven away. 1t grew worse after this,
and in February many kayakers had
not killed a seal in half a month. AT
least there was not enough for the
people, and those who caught seals
and wild fowl would not sell them, but
hid all they did not use, out of fear of
worst days.
Always had Apuluse carried fish and
meat (of the seaD to Else's house being
paid there out of the money which
they had from the pension of her moth
er. So that when Apuluse searched a
whole week and killed no seals, they
could get nothing in all the place.
| We were grieved to hear of this, but
the fear for ourselves and the hard Ia
bors of our own providers made us
keep all we had. scarce enough at any
time to last one day.
1t was on Saturday, the middle OF
February, that Else left her house and
went to the house of the Administra-
tor with money to buy food. This she
waited long to do, for such food as the
European have uses up our money very
soon.
When she went to the house of Hi
almar she was dressed like q Danish
maiden, and with her hair falling over
her shoulders like the brightest gold,
she was very pale, having been much
without food, but her eyes were bluer
than ever we saw the moss flower grow.
1t was as if an angel had gone away
from the sky and lived among us.
When Hialmar saw her it was for
the first time, she had been so little
abroad.
She told HIM the food she wished,
aud then, thinking how little it would
be, and how the pension would be paid
away, the tears came into her eyes and
she hid them with her hands.
Then she turned and went to her
home, but it was told at all the places
before the day was gone that Hialmar
, walked beside her and brought the
flour and barley she had bought.
On the morrow when Else left the
church, we saw that Halmar made
haste to speak to her, and walked be-
eide her a little way till their paths di-
vided. Many people there were who
shook their heads and feared little good
would come of this new matter. But
on the whole island none dare say they
were not the finest man and woman
they had ever seen together.
Every Sabbath they walked from
the church as l have said, Else going
very timid and demure at Hialmar's
side, so that no one could say if it was
for more than respect to his high
office and power Still we could not
, blame her if she had forgotten Jens,
! who had been cruel to one SC good and
fair.
Il 1t was March when the storms broke
!, the ice on all the coast aud washed into
the bay the body of kepokak. very
large and but little time killed by
> some whaling ship. There was enough
for all after that, and from the sale of
, the blubber the men bought coffee and
tobacco.
II While we were busy in fensing the
, whale and after the storm was over a
, kayaker called Jorgen came from the
, fjord of Isortok, where he lived very
J lonely, and told us that the summer he
3 had seen kayaker going straight to
: the open sea, being then league from
! the coast. At this he was afraid, and
shut his house all that night lest it be
Y an anghiak and come to do him harm.
: But the day after ship was seen go.
/ ing away, and now Jorgen believed
. that Jens had gone with the whaling
p men.
h / will now tell you what was the
G truth about Jens. There had been at
: Naparsok whaling ship wanting
meat, many being sick of scurvy. This
4 Jens brought them, having killed a
8 white bear and walrus, besides seals
n and ducks OF them he had the paper
on which was the woman's face, and
+ asking many questions, was told that
8 the ship could 60 to the place where
j she lived, which was near to Vineland,
a in the United States. .....
In book Jens had read of how, in
t other years, Left and his brother
!, Thorvald had gone from Greenland to
e Vineland, and believed it to be such a
country as his own, only warmer, bu,
e where were people like ourselves. Thus
after time, looking always at the
e wicked eyes of the beautiful face, he
;, forgot all but these. 1t was as if Tor
d narsnk had flung over him the spell Of
g the kusuinek, which leads men into tn,
e caves of the ice dwarfs and makes then
II blind.
g lie was very proud, being so good {
n provider, and held it certain that tn,
l. beautiful woman would love him if h,
d came before her So does pride max,
Is more folly than kusuinek,
ri After Jens came back from Sukker
q topen, having been so cruel with little
Else, the ship went to look foi whales
IS But the wind was not fair and at nigh
4 il was still in sight, being calmed in th'
ii North. Then did lens take all tha