“H'm! Your friend and I agreed you ought to have more per day.”
Falkenberg had said no word of this to me; it sounded like the Captain's
own idea.
“I agreed with him we should share alike,” said I.
“But you were sort of foreman; of course, you ought to have fifty øre
per day extra.”
I saw my hesitation displeased him, and let him reckon it out as he
pleased. When he gave me the money, I said it was more than I had
reckoned with. The Captain answered:
“Very pleased to hear it. And I've written a few lines here that might
be useful, saying you've worked well the time you were here.”
He handed me the paper.
A just and kindly man, the Captain. He said nothing now about the idea
of laying on water to the house next spring; I took it he'd his reasons
for that, and did not like to trouble him.
Then he asked:
“So you're going off now to work on the railway?”