Signe looked up with a start. There was Hagbert
standing half concealed behind a bush.
"Oh, I see you," she shouted.
He came down to the water, grinning good-naturedly.
"Well," said he, "I didn't think you were so vain as all that."
"Can't a person look at the pebbles and fish at at the bottom of the
lake without being vain?" and she laughed her confusion away. "Say,
Hagbert, is your boat close by?"
"Yes, just down by the north landing."
"Oh, that's good. I thought I would have to wait until father came this
evening to get home. You'll row me across, won't you?"
"Why, certainly; but I thought you had gone to the _saeter_ to stay, at
least a week."
"Yes, but--but, I've come home again, you see."
"Yes, I see," and he looked oddly at her. He had also seen Hr. Bogstad
set out for the mountains two days before, and now he wondered.
Hagbert fetched the boat, took in his passenger, and his strong arms
soon sent the light craft to the other bank.
"A thousand thanks, Hagbert," she said, as she sprang out, and then
climbed up the steep path, and watched him pull back.
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