The Icelandic Canadian - 01.04.1988, Qupperneq 29

THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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the riverbank and stared out towards the
river until it was dark. Then he walked up to
the young fellows’ bedroom and went to
bed.
Long after I was in bed and had blown
out the light, I kept thinking of this odd
young man and what Anna had told me
about him and his secretive trips. It was very
strange, mysterious and incredible, I thought,
that he should now and again steal away
and be away from home many days at a
time, without mentioning to his fellow lod-
gers where he had gone and what he had
been doing. And I found that I sorely longed
to learn his strange secret, to follow him
some time when he stole away, for I felt that
I would then get to see and hear much that
was astonishing. And with this longing in
my heart I fell asleep at last on my first night
in the crooked house.
ArnOr did not go to work the next day.

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