"
At this the Captain pulled himself together. "Sunday?" he said. "Then she
must have been going to meet me in Kristiania. H'm! We've managed to miss
each other somehow. I had to make another little journey yesterday, out to
Drammen--no, Frederikstad, I mean. Get me something to eat, will you?"
_"Varsaagod,_ it's already laid."
"It was the day before yesterday, by the way, I went out there. Well,
well, she'll have had a little outing, anyhow. And how's everything going
on? Are the men at work on the trench?"
"They've finished it, I think."
The Captain went in, and Ragnhild came running at once to tell us what he
had said, that we might know what to go by now, and not make things worse.
Later in the day he came out to where we were at work, greeted us
cheerily, in military fashion, and was surprised to find the pipes already
laid; we had begun filling in now.
"Splendid!" he said. "You fellows are quicker at your work than I am."
He went off by himself up to the reservoir.
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