"It's very good of you to be
so interested in my people," said Ferdinand with a smile. Klaus Brock
looked from one to the other, wondering to himself how things really
stood between the two.
The summer vacation came round, and the students prepared to break up
and go their various ways. Klaus was to go home. And one day Ferdinand
came to Peer and said: "Look here, old man. I want you to do me a great
favour. I'd arranged to go to the seaside this summer, but I've a
chance of going up to the hills, too. Well, I can't be in two places
at once--couldn't you take on one of them for me? Of course I'd pay
all expenses." "No, thank you!" said Peer, with a laugh. But when Klaus
Brock came just before leaving and said: "See here, Peer. Don't you
think you and I might club together and put a marble slab over--Louise's
grave?", Peer was touched, and clapped him on the shoulder. "What a good
old fellow you are, Klaus," he said.
Later in the summer Peer set out alone on a tramp through the country,
and whenever he saw a chance, he would go up to one of the farms and
say: "Would you like to have a good map of the farm? It'll cost ten
crowns and my lodging while I'm at it." It made a very pleasant holiday
for him, and he came home with a little money in his pocket to boot.
His second year at the school was much like the first. He plodded along
at his work. And now and then his two friends would come and drag him
off for an evening's jollification.
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