Andras , putting the money he had earned in his pocket , went home also . The following spring Andras happened to be driving his reindeer along a great fiord to the west of Vadso . A boy who had met him hastened to tell the bailiff that his enemy was only a few miles off ; and the bailiff , disguising himself as a Stalo , or ogre , called his son and his dog and rowed away across the fiord to the place where the boy had met Andras . Now the mountaineer was lazily walking along the sands , thinking of the new hut that he was building with the money that he had won on the day of his lucky jump . He wandered on , his eyes fixed on the sands , so that he did not see the bailiff drive his boat behind a rock , while he changed himself into a heap of wreckage which floated in on the waves . A stumble over a stone recalled Andras to himself , and looking up he beheld the mass of wreckage . ` Dear me ! I may find some use for that , ' he said ; and hastened down to the sea , waiting till he could lay hold of some stray rope which might float towards him . Suddenly -- he could not have told why -- a nameless fear seized upon him , and he fled away from the shore as if for his life . As he ran he heard the sound of a pipe , such as only ogres of the Stalo kind were wont to use ; and there flashed into his mind what the bailiff had said when they jumped the boat : ` Next time you will have something harder to do . ' So it was no wreckage after all that he had seen , but the bailiff himself . It happened that in the long summer nights up in the mountain , where the sun never set , and it was very difficult to get to sleep , Andras had spent many hours in the study of magic , and this stood him in good stead now . The instant he heard the Stalo music he wished himself to become the feet of a reindeer , and in this guise he galloped like the wind for several miles . Then he stopped to take breath and find out what his enemy was doing . Nothing he could see , but to his ears the notes of a pipe floated over the plain , and ever , as he listened , it drew nearer . A cold shiver shook Andras , and this time he wished himself the feet of a reindeer calf . For when a reindeer calf has reached the age at which he begins first to lose his hair he is so swift that neither beast nor bird can come near him . A reindeer calf is the swiftest of all things living . Yes ; but not so swift as a Stalo , as Andras found out when he stopped to rest , and heard the pipe playing ! For a moment his heart sank , and he gave himself up for dead , till he remembered that , not far off , were two little lakes joined together by a short though very broad river .
In the middle of the river lay a stone that was always covered XXXXX water , except in dry seasons , and as the winter rains had been very heavy , he felt quite sure that not even the top of it could be seen .
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