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We bided quietly there all the rest of that day and that night, and then in the morning were bidden to speak with the king, Ceorle taking us four himself and sending one to find the lay brethren and Dudda. The king sat with Alfred the Atheling in a private chamber, no other but Ceorle being beside him while we were there.
And as I looked at the long chains of ice-bound meres and pools that ran among dense thickets of alder and wide snow-covered stretches of peat bogs, it seemed that we might search in vain for one who would hide among them. Only the strange round hill on Stanmoor seemed to be a point that might be noted on all the level, though Dudda told us that there were many islets hidden in the wooded parts.
"Ay, friends of ours sure enough; but are they the king's?" "Most truly so. Have you news of him?" "I have not; but I have heard some fenmen talking." Then Osmund rose up and went his way silently, as was his wont; and Dudda grinned at us. "He is a good Dane," he said; "now I can speak.
It was Dudda, and his eyes were bright in the firelight. And over Brent the first streaks of dawn were broadening, and the mists were gone. "Master, master," he said, "come with me to the roadway. Something is afoot." Then I woke Wulfhere, asking him to wait for me, guarding the standard, and followed my man swiftly to the place where the road cuts the hill.
At last I stopped, and then he made haste to compose himself. "Master," he said, "forgive me. But if you were Grendel, as I think now, there is a great fear off my mind." "I was Grendel, Dudda," said I; "but you must have a sorely evil conscience to be so easily frighted." "Nay, master; but from week to week I see none, least of all at midnight, and mail-clad men never at all.
Thence he took an iron cauldron, and hoisted it on the great round of tree trunk that served as table in the midst of the hut. "Dudda Collier left his supper when he fled. Wherefore if we eat it he will think Grendel got it and no blame to us," remarked the boy, chuckling.
"Oh, master," said Dudda, whispering, "surely this is Elgar the fisher!" And I, peering into the dark bottom of the boat could see a dark still form, lying doubled over a thwart, that seemed to me to bear likeness to him. "Is he dead?" I asked. "Aye, master, but not long," answered the collier; feeling about.
The history of Tewkesbury Abbey comes from misty antiquity, and it is thought by some to have been named "Dukes-borough" from two ancient Britons, Dukes Odda and Dudda, but others say it commemorates a missionary monk named Theoe, who founded a little church there in the seventh century.
So I was satisfied enough. Then this man Dudda, finding I listened to him in that matter, began to talk, asking me questions of the fighting, and presently "if I had seen the saint?" I asked him what he meant; and as I did so I heard Wulfhere chuckle to himself. Then he told me a wild story that was going round the town.
They began to throw stones, and one cast a spear at him, but that fell short. Then the bank hid him from us; but we saw a Dane fixing arrow to bowstring, and saw him shoot; but he missed, surely, for he took another arrow and ran on down the bank. Then Dudda pulled me by the arm, and motioned me to follow him, and I saw no more.
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