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Updated: June 12, 2025
One ill dream I had, and that was of Bertric's unlucky kitten, which seemed to be the queen in some uncanny way. Sometimes I wonder what became of it. I never learned, but it brought me no more ill luck. When I woke it was daylight again. A fire burnt on the hearth in the middle of the hall, and someone had spread a wolf-skin rug over me.
And there was Sister Sexberga beside me, with Bertric's sword, that had hung over his berth, in her hand; and her eyes were flashing, and it seemed to me that she had used a sword before this, or had learnt its use. It was reddened now. The men gave back, and Egil came before me and he was laughing. "That is enough, Redwald of Bures," he said. "I owe you a life, and you have it.
Now I knew that only one thing would account for the purposeful firing of the ship. Yonder lay some mighty chief and as I thought of that I clutched Bertric's arm and pointed. "Not the pestilence, comrade," I said; "but what lies in yonder penthouse." "What should be there?" he asked, wondering, for my voice was unsteady. "We have boarded the funeral ship of some chief," I said.
They can find shelter in Selsea or Chichester a nun has always friends and a house if Redwald will see them safely to the door," Egil said very kindly. Then he bade the men get out the boat, which was a good one, and fitted for carrying cargo from ship to shore. Two of Bertric's men were to go ashore with me and the nuns, taking messages also to the Bosham folk of what had befallen the ship.
Yet there was a wondrous beauty still lingering over them; they seemed etherialised as if an angel's smile had last stirred their lines, when the spirit went forth, and left its imprint of wonder, joy, and awe thereon; and Alfgar instinctively turned from them to the blue depths of heaven above, where a few stars were visible, although dimmed by the moonlight; and he seemed to trace his beloved Bertric's passage to the realms of bliss.
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