Jerusalem

ught, then put in another rub or two and beg again: "Were I in our Lord's place, I'd see to it that a thing was done the instant your mind was made up. I shouldn't allow

g it was. "The senator from Bergskog is coming!" he shouted into the kitchen, where his mot

, I'm not going into the house," he said, "I only want a word or two with

king some fresh co

but I must n

nce you were here, Senato

appeared in the doo

of going without first com

began to move. "Seeing it's Mother Martha herself that

with sleepy faces and clumsy bodies. But all the same, the senator had a profound respect for the old family of Ingmars, and would gladly have sacrificed his own active exter

ha had brought the coffee, h

ittle, and the teaspoon rattled in the saucer. Then there was a painful silence. "We have been thinking that the best thing we could do would be to send her to Americ

me first, of cour

uld she be d

at with his eyes nearly close

at asking questions. "She'll

ended to; there is a t

re we always stop wh

be there to mee

o, but I think it best that

ybe

will have everything she needs. I felt that Ingmar ought to know of it,

Her headkerchief had slipped back, a

e looking about

son persistently

ome comfort in her old age." The senator paused a moment, wondering if they could have hear

After all a murderess was not to become the mistress of the old Ingmar home. He had kept still, thinking it was not the thing

at he had to give these old-fashioned people t

gave a start, as if suddenly awakened from sleep. "What would father say of this?" he wondered. "If I were to lay the whole matter before him, what would he be likely to say? 'You must not think that you can make a mockery of God's judgment,' he would say. 'And don'

ent Brita's father here to show me how mean it is to try to shift everything on to her, poor girl! I gu

ome brandy into his cof

tor for coming here to-day," he