question_answer 20)

What made the peddler finally change his ways?    

Answer:

Due to the trust and compassion shown by the ironmaster's daughter, Edia Willmansson, the peddler became a changed man. This was evident from the package of a small rattrap with three wrinkled ten kroner notes that the peddler left for her. In the rattrap lay also a letter that read that since she had been so nice to him all day long, he did not want her to be embarrassed in the Christmas season by a thief. He wanted her to return the money to the old man on the roadside. The rattrap was a Christmas present from a rat who would have been caught in this world's rattrap if he had not been treated like a captain by the lady. She helped him get the strength to reform himself. The letter was signed 'Captain von Stanley