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Hallstenson, the yeoman, who had carved the altar in the village church. There the taciturn men worked with diligence, and from under their hands there appeared, carved in wood, angels, apostles, and saints; Holy Marys and Saint Catherines ; the Heavenly Gabriel with a lily in his hand ; Saint Peter with the key ; Saint Paul with a sword; Saint Sigfrid with a staff ; Saint George inarmour.and Saint Sebastian.with a body pierced with arrows. The real worker was Olof Hallstenson. But the knight performed not alone the rough work ; he also cleverly carved the folds of the mantles and put on the colours. Many a winter Riddar Bengt had spent in this way. It seemed as though he could not get enough of holy images. The chapel in the castle, and the one in the monastery, had gotten their quotas. The hall and the bed-rooms had theirs also. Even in the long, dark corridors saints peeped out of every nook and corner, and on the balustrades of the staircases they appeared as if in humble meditation. In that part of the castle which, according to tradition, was built in pagan times, St. Sigfrid had been placed, and before him knelt that heathen who had preferred Balder to Christ and Odin to the Holy Trinity. From the expression on the carved face one could plainly see that he repented of that great sin, and that he earnestly prayed that coming generations might not be punished on his account. A harp—that of pagan song—lay broken at his feet. Many a night when Riddar Bengt awoke he thought of that poor soul who was languishing in purgatory, but he consoled himself with the reflection that masses and good deeds of his descendants would alleviate the pain and make deliverance apossibility. Father Henrik, Erland's teacher, had travelled extensively over the world before he settled as prior ...