Gerda in Sweden

cirkel!" cried Gerda fr

answer, and sprang to Gerda's

nd creaked; then came to a stop at the

he station rose a great pile of stones, to mark the only spot where a railroad crosses the Arctic Circle. This is the most northerly railr

p of the cairn, Birger said, "This is

hought of the swamps and the forests of pine and birch which lay between them and Lule?, many miles away on th

e wonderful to me that we are here looking at it. Do you remember how i

ys thought there was nothing but ic

nd barley, away up here in Lapland. Father says the crops grow faster because the sun shines

ow in winter; but just here there seems

s," added Birger. "Don't

lowly northward, on its way toward Gellivare and Mount Dundret, where, from the fift

aying, "See my souvenir of Polcirkel." But Gerda paid little attention

" she sa

maps and papers in his lap. "What do

make me a promi

y money to keep it," he

he wanted, and began looking over the papers in his lap

t to the station master at Gellivare, he will give me a key which will op

ay for it?" was Ger

he card and all the privileges

f money left?" ask

us all three back to Stockholm, a

Gerda slowly,

Lieutenant Ekm

y home and ask Karen Klasson to go to Stockholm and live with us

her father and mother for the sake

it would make her back

cure people's backs, we might have all the

good for her to take the Swedish medical gymnastics at the Ins

good idea and shows a loving heart," he said. "But are you willin

Karen into our family and send her to the gymnasium, it would cost a good many kronor, an

the forest on the horizon. "Yes," she said at last; "I will g

t would be a real sacrifice for her to give them up; but if she were willing to

ill see what can be done. On the way home we will stop at the light

"Oh, a promise! A promi

Polcirkel!" and she ran