PELLE THE CONQUEROR


PART IV.--DAYBREAK.



BY MARTIN ANDERSON NEXO




TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH
By Jessie Muir.



IV. DAYBREAK


I


Out in the middle of the open, fertile country, where the plough was
busy turning up the soil round the numerous cheerful little houses,
stood a gloomy building that on every side turned bare walls toward the
smiling world. No panes of glass caught the ruddy glow of the morning
and evening sun and threw back its quivering reflection; three rows of
barred apertures drank in all the light of day with insatiable avidity.
They were always gaping greedily, and seen against the background of