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When men were sent to search the island and capture him he killed some of them, seized their boat, and made his escape. King Erik was furious, but Thore Herse got him to accept a money payment for Baard's death as was then the custom of the land and he agreed to let Egil dwell in Norway unharmed. This was not to the queen's liking.
Baard stood in the corner and saw him distinctly; he had put off his threadbare Sunday clothes and wore the uniform he had brought home with him from the war, the match to Baard's, and which he had promised his brother never to touch but to leave for an heirloom, Baard having given him a similar promise.
Baard's knees trembled; he sat down at the foot of the bed and burst into a violent fit of weeping. The sick man looked at him intently and said nothing. At length he asked his wife to go out, but Baard made a sign to her to remain; and now these two brothers began to talk together. They accounted for everything from the day they had bid for the watch up to the present moment.
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