How does the peddler interpret the …

The peddler was a man who went around selling small rattraps of wire. He was leading a sad and monotonus life of a vagabond. He knocked at the door of the cottage of the crofter who turned out to be an old man without wife and children. He showed his kindness and hospitality towards him which the peddler had not excepted. But the peddler stole his thirty kronors. Thus he betrayed the confidence reposed in him by the crofter. 

The ironmaster, thinking him as an old acquaintance Captian Von Stahle , showed kindness to him and invited him to spend the Christmas evening with him. But the peddler thought that if he would say that he is the one whom the ironmaster is thinking, then he would get some more kronors.That's why he did not reveal his true identity.

Edla Willmanson, requested the peddler to go to her home in a very compassionate and friendly manner.He then accepted to go to their home. 
But while he was riding the manor house, he felt very guilty of whatever he did. So he decided to correct his mistake. He did that by leaving a gift for Edla in which there were the thirty kronors which he had theft from the crofter's house. He had written in the note to return the money of crofter back.