"
"What were you doing there?"
"Felling timber."
"I don't know him--he lives a long way off. But I've heard of him. Any
papers from him?"
I showed him what the Captain had written.
"Come along with me," said the Lensmand abruptly. He led me round the
house and into the kitchen.
"Give this man a thorough good meal--he's come a long way, and...."
I sat down in the big, well-lighted kitchen to the best meal I had had for
a long time. I had just finished when the Lensmand came out again.
"Look here, you...." he began.
I got up at once and stood straight as an arrow--a piece of politeness
which I fancy was not lost on him.
"No, no, finish your meal, go on. Finished? Sure? Well, I've been
thinking.... Come along with me."
He took me out to the woodshed.
"You might do a bit of work getting in firewood; what do you say to that?
I've two men on the place, but one of them I shall want for summoners'
work, so you'll have to go woodcutting with the other. You can see there's
plenty of wood here as it is, but it'll take no harm lying here, can't
have too much of that sort of thing.
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