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"Is that what you told him?" cried Alwin, in amazement. Sigurd echoed the cry. Yet as their minds ran back over Egil's strange actions, they could not doubt that this was the key that unlocked their mystery. From an invisible corner came a stir, a creak, and then the sound of feet lighting softly on the floor. A tiny figure appeared on the edge of the shadows beyond the dying fire.
Helga will not be given to Egil, because he is too haughty to ask for her since he knows that she loves you instead of him." It had seemed to Alwin that if he could only know this, he would be satisfied; yet now his questions piled upon each other. "Then do you promise that she will be given to me? How am I to save her? How am I to get my freedom? How long am I to wait?"
But it may be that, in time to come, the memory will fade out of your mind, even as the scar will fade from your face. Then, if you have seen that my friendship is worth having, do you come and ask me for it, and I will give it to you." Before Alwin had time to think of an answer that would say neither more nor less than he meant, she had walked away with Sigurd.
Even after he had gathered sufficient energy to get into his clothes again, Alwin lingered lazily, waiting for his companion to make the first move toward departure. "This is a restful spot," he said, gazing up at the sky through the network of interlacing branches.
It is likely that that moment would have seen the end of Alwin, if it had not happened that Valbrand the steersman was in the booth, arraying himself for the feast. He was a gigantic warrior, with a face seamed with scars and as hard as the battle-axe at his side. He caught Egil's uplifted arm and wrested the blade from his grasp.
Even though I go with him, it will do no harm. If he tries to marry me to anyone, I will pretend that I think the marriage beneath me. I will work upon his greediness, and so trick him into waiting; and in a year you will come and rescue me." "If I am alive!" Alwin interrupted her sharply. He sprang up and began to pace the floor, clenching his fists and knocking them together.
Alwin was brought to the notice of his new master in a most unexpected fashion. For one reason or another, the camp had been deserted early. At day-break, Egil slung his bow across his back, provided himself with a store of arrows and a bag of food, and set out for the mountains, to hunt, he told Tyrker, sullenly, as he passed.
"Only," Alwin added, "I think it right that he should explain the cause of his enmity toward me, and " Egil leaped to his feet; his proud indifference flamed into sudden fury. "That I will never do, though you tear out my tongue-roots!" he shouted. Even his comrades regarded him in amazement. Alwin tried a sneer. "It is my belief that you fear to speak of Skroppa."
I have just learned why it is that Thorhild no longer speaks to Eric, and why he is in a mood to smash things." "Why?" asked Alwin, impatiently; but he no longer struggled, for he knew it was useless in Rolf's grip. "Because last night Thorhild told Eric that she had become a Christian. Her bowerwoman told Helga, and when I met Helga " "Met her? Where? Is she in the women's-house?"
Alwin said, testily: "I do not see why we must be kept jumping like frightened rabbits because Leif has ordered us to avoid quarrels. What trouble can we get into if we remain here without speaking, and give them plenty of room to pass by us into the hall?" Rolf smiled amiably at the three scowling faces.
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