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But I would not answer at once to the other question, and Ingvar seemed not to notice it. Then there was silence while the great jarl sat on his horse very still, and looked hard at me and at Beorn; but when the men would have bound us he signed them back, letting Beorn go free.
With an hysteric cry of gladness he ran forward, and was only saved from Spurling's teeth, as he bent back his head, by Beorn, who pushed him to one side so heavily that he fell to the ground. Then Eyelids came in, and picked him up and carried him back to the shack. For the next few days he had plenty of leisure to reflect.
"What say you, master armourer?" "I say the same, my lord. The villains have slipped through our fingers, and we can do nought to stay them. It seems to me that not an hour should be lost in sending a warning to the Thane of Steyning." "I will mount myself and ride north," Beorn said. "And I, my lord, will at once go down to the port and inquire if there be a ship sailing to-day for the Humber.
As he crouched there motionless, he ran through the list of all possible assailants in his mind. It might be Beorn or Eyelids. It might be Robert Pilgrim. It might even be the Mounted Police, arrived before their time.
Come with your complaints to your Prince and your Witan, and, if they are just, ye are stronger than in yonder palisades and streets of steel." "And so," said Gamel Beorn, with marked emphasis, "now thou art in England, O noble Earl, so are we willing to come. But when thou wert absent from the land, justice seemed to abandon it to force and the battle-axe."
"Yes, quite five thousand, Beorn." At the call of the watchmen the men had, of their own accord, all mounted to the walls. "We had better divide our commands," Beorn said. "Your force is double mine. For the present I will undertake the defence of the rear walls if you will take the front.
"Why," he answered, "the bird got loose from her master's ship as he sailed out of port in Iceland, and he found her at home in Nidaros at his journey's ending; and they knew well on what day she came, which was the same as that on which she got free." Then I said, lest Beorn should scoff again: "Now, if this falcon got free from here, surely she will go home to your land."
Beorn agreed that it was worth trying, and they returned to the men, rearmed themselves, and spoke to Osgod. "We are going to reconnoitre, Osgod, and may be an hour away. As we shall not leave the forest there is no danger, and even were we seen we can climb the hill again as fast as any Welshman can follow us.
"You know that we crossed a streamlet that ran into this brook soon after we started. They must have followed that up, thinking we had done so, and have gone up some other valley. What is to be done, Beorn?"
"Now, have you noted any envy at the favour in which he is held by Eadmund?" "Aye, Father," I answered, "from Beorn, the falconer." "So you, too, have had your eyes open," went on my father; "now I mistrust that man, for he hates Lodbrok." "That is saying more than I had thought." "You have been away, and there is more than you know at the bottom of the matter.
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