The Treasure is set in Bohuslän in the 16th century, it tells the story of a group of Scottish mercenaries who escape from prison; they go on to murder a family to steal a treasure chest, after which one of them falls in love with the family's sole survivor.
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Selma Lagerlöf. The Treasure
The Treasure
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. AT SOLBERGA PARSONAGE
I
II
III
IV
CHAPTER II. ON THE QUAYS
CHAPTER III. THE MESSENGER
CHAPTER IV. IN THE MOONLIGHT
CHAPTER V. HAUNTED
I
II
III
CHAPTER VI. IN THE TOWN CELLARS
I
II
III
IV
CHAPTER VII. UNREST
CHAPTER VIII. SIR ARCHIE'S FLIGHT
CHAPTER IX. OVER THE ICE
CHAPTER X. THE ROAR OF THE WAVES
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Selma Lagerlöf
Translator: Arthur G. Charter
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At this Torarin himself was not far from yielding to an uncanny feeling. It had now grown almost dark, but still Torarin could see Solberga church and the wide plain around it, which was sheltered by broad wooded heights to landward and by bare, rounded rocks toward the sea. As he drove on in solitude over the vast white plain, he felt he was a wretched little worm, while from the dark forests and the mountain wastes came troops of great monsters and trolls of every kind venturing into the open country on the fall of darkness. And in the whole great plain there was none other for them to fall upon than poor Torarin.
But at the same time he tried again to quiet the dog.
