had looked around immediately after their arrival. There were a few wooden houses by the peat bog, well and solidly built, with clay hearths. During the war there had been much activity there with foreign workers who had lived in these houses. Peat was like gold at this time, and they could live there. In winter they could fell timber. So much timber had to be felled. He had spoken about it to the forester’s wife. They would not suffer want. And they would be together.
Aegidius looked at him thoughtfully. “But you will be in the wilderness, Donelaitis,” he said at last.
“Is not the whole world a wilderness today, Herr Baron?” asked Donelaitis. “And here it is a little like it was in the old days. It smells as it smelled at home, Herr Baron.
“But if you could help us a little, Herr Baron, with bedding and kitchen utensils, for instance, and with some wood so that we might have a bed and a table?”
Aegidius was not satisfied, but he had to give in. He went to Kelley, to the commissioner for refugees, and to the Landrat, and after two weeks the cottagers moved in. Christoph remained with Baron Erasmus in the forester’s house.
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