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 Jethro answered. “You know that much and it is hard to tell you a great deal more. Oscar isn’t like the rest of us. I don’t quite know what to say about him; he is always dreaming about something big, some way. His father must have been quite a great person back in Sweden; he was poor  to the end of his life, just as every one in Rudolm  is poor, but you can see that Oscar and Linda are  not quite the same kind of people as the rest.”

“He doesn’t live here in Rudolm?” Hugh said.

"Not now, he lives out beyond Jasper Peak. He is proving up on some kind of a claim, homesteading, right in the country that Half-Breed  Jake calls his. He was here in April when war  was declared and went down pell-mell to Duluth  to enlist, wanted to go into the Navy, I think,  these Swedes all do. But they wouldn’t take  him, or for the army either, I don’t know why.  He came back in a few days, looking grim and set  and not saying a word to any one. He went  right off into the woods again and we’ve scarcely  seen him since. It was a cruel disappointment,