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I shook my head, but it came over me for a moment that I wished I might recall the wandering fancies of the winter days in Penhurst but that passed, and I was lonely in heart. "Nay, thane, that is not so. My sword here is all that I love next to my king and Olaf my cousin and Relf the thane. I have no love for any maiden, nor could Sexberga think twice of me." "If you had bided a little longer.
I laughed, for he had heard Ottar jesting about the fair maid at Penhurst more than once. "No," I answered. "She has been crossing her lover, and he is in dudgeon for a while that is all." "I am glad," he said. "Asked you aught of Uldra?" "I have not spoken of it to her." "Is that so?" said Olaf, smiling. "Now she is likely to have more than common interest in you, for one reason or another."
And when I saw it, into my mind flashed the time when I had stood, weakened and hurt, and looked at the like in Penhurst village and the words that Spray the smith spoke came to me, and they cheered me, as a little thing will sometimes. And then I thought of her who prayed for me among Penhurst woods, and I was glad that life was left me yet.
I knew not how you would take it." Then we both laughed, but it was not a hearty laughter, for each feared the other a little, as it seemed. "I am glad for Sexberga, if she is happy," said I. "Why, now, that is well," said Relf. "I had thought that I must break this matter gently to you." "Maybe you would have had to do so had I bided at Penhurst much longer," said I truly enough.
It would not do to offend the village magnate. "I see you have sent for Andrew," observed the squire, with a wave of his hand toward the boy. "Yes; I shall not be able to keep him at Penhurst Academy any longer." "Very sensible decision of yours. No doubt it cost you a pretty penny to keep him there?" "The school charge is three hundred dollars a year." "Bless my soul! How extravagant!
But presently Godwine went away to Bosham, where the earl's ships were mostly laid up, to see to the housing of his vessels for the winter, and when I grew strong it was rather my place to go to Pevensea and wait on Wulfnoth, if I would see him. I think the earl came to Penhurst more often also, because he would dig for more treasure in all the old ruins in the town.
The former was requested to meet her at Penhurst station at noon. Nesta was to be at the station for the Wells at three o'clock. From the time of the flying of these telegrams, up to the tap of Victor's knuckle on her bed-room door next morning, she was not more reflectively conscious than a packet travelling to its destination by pneumatic tube.
I had but seen him once before, and that was at Earl Wulfnoth's feast to Olaf when we first came. That was an evening to be remembered as most pleasant when, after the feast, we sat and spoke of all that had happened since I left Penhurst. I told them all the tale of warfare, and of Olaf's deeds, and of the winning back of my sword, and how that helped our meeting with Egil.
Now Ottar had been to Penhurst with me, and we had come thence together to the ships. And when the old walls of the great castle were lost to sight as the vessel plunged eastward, he said: "Relf's daughter is a fair maiden, friend Redwald. It is in my mind that she will long to see you back again." "Not so," I answered; "she is but friendly."
A telegram for you, Andy!" said Arthur Bacon, as he entered the room of Andy Grant in Penhurst Academy. "A telegram!" repeated Andy, in vague alarm, for the word suggested something urgent probably bad news of some kind. He tore open the envelope and read the few words of the message: "Come home at once. Something has happened. "What can it be?" thought Andy, perplexed.
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