In this I have a double purpose: first, to win a position for myself; but secondly, and chiefly, to accomplish something which your grandfather can see and understand.

Luckily it chances that most of the Heidegard freeholders are young people who wish for improvements and desire help; they have money, too.

So I shall begin among them.

I shall regulate everything from their stables to their water-pipes; I shall give lectures and work; I shall fairly besiege the old man with good deeds." "Those are brave words.

What more, Oyvind ?" "Why, the rest simply concerns us two.