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So they walked on towards the sound of a waterfall, and, when they came to it, drank, and bathed their faces and heads. "This is better than their wine," said Wulf. Then, catching sight of more women flitting round them, looking like ghosts amid the moonlit glades, they pressed forward till they reached an open sward where there were no rugs, no sleepers, and no cupbearers.
Accordingly the next day Wulf was carried across to Lord de Burg's, and his pallet set down by the side of Guy's. The latter was a little better, and the leech had faint hopes of his recovery. His right arm had been broken by a blow with a club, and so badly fractured that it had already been taken off near the shoulder.
Then, he could not understand why Fitz-Urse should return to London at this time, when Normans are not overwelcome there, and this caused him to have some sort of suspicion as to his reasons for undertaking such a journey, and determined him to set a watch on the fellow's movements. Had it been any other than Wulf who had so acted I should have laughed at his suspicions.
At the risk of his neck, the detective sprang out of his taxi and rushed round the corner, just in time to hear a door bang to. Wulf now joined him. "We have wasted our time, my dear Juve. The taxi we have been following was empty. It made a circuit and passed me just now." "Just what I expected!" cried Juve, "our man got out of it ... he is still here."
He left the room, and soon returned with Lady de Burg and Guy. "My lord has told me," she said, before Wulf could speak, "that you would ask my consent to your marriage with Agnes. I give it you unasked, freely and gladly. I have but one regret that the seas will divide us."
He cannot but know that his presence is required in England." It was a matter of satisfaction to Wulf that Walter Fitz-Urse was not at the court, he having a few weeks before returned to England, where he was again in the suite of the Norman bishop of London.
'I have no lady, my young friends, said old Wulf, in good enough Greek, 'and owe you nothing: so I shall keep my money, as you might have kept yours; and as you might, too, old Smid, if you had been as wise as I. 'Don't be stingy, prince, for the honour of the Goths, said Smid, laughing.
"The authority has been in good hands, I know well," Wulf said," and right heartily do I thank you for having so well filled my place; but I would not take up my thaneship as yet I am but a boy, and have to learn my duties from you, and shall account myself but as your pupil.
As soon as the reception was over Wulf hurried out into the courtyard to speak to Osgod. "Right glad am I to see you again, Osgod; I have been troubled as to how you were faring." "In truth we have fared badly enough, master; we have been working like beasts of burden, without having food that would suffice for an ass.
I say the governor looked like a liar; and I say this monk looks like an honest fellow; and I choose to believe him, and there is an end of it. 'Don't look so cross at me, Prince Wulf; I'm sure it's not my fault; I could only say what the monk told me, whispered poor Pelagia. 'Who looks cross at you, my queen? roared the Amal. 'Let me have him out here, and by Thor's hammer, I'll
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