The Day of Wrath

CHAPTER I.

THE BIRD OF ILL-OMEN.

Whoever has traversed the long single street of Hetfalu will have noticed three houses whose exterior plainly shows that nobody dwells in them.

The first of these three houses is outside the village on a great green hill, round which the herds of the village peacefully crop the pasture. Only now and then does one or other of these quiet b...