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Now I would not give Edric any reason to blame me to Eadmund, and so I wheeled my men to the right, away from the bridge and along the great road towards London, and letting them go on slowly, I called to a man who stood foremost. "This is a sorry business," I said; "but your leader had no right to smite my man, and one waxes hasty when a man behaves thus. He was an unmannerly messenger."
But Eadmund unhelmed when he heard the cry that he was slain, and rode through the ranks, and our men knew him, and cheered, and fell on the Danes afresh, and the broken line closed up, and they fought till night fell, and in the night the Danes drew off.
Now, when it may have been almost midnight, and the time for mass would soon be come, the bishop, who had been so still that I thought he slept, lifted his head and looked towards the altar. And at the same time my dog whined a little beside me. Then Humbert the Bishop rose up and held out both his hands as to one whom he would greet, and spoke softly. "Aye, Eadmund, I am coming.
"Because when he made Beorn speak, Beorn said that Eadmund the King had set him on to slay Lodbrok. I heard the man confess it." "But he left that story, telling the truth about himself," I said. "Aye, so he did. But the tale has stuck in Ingvar's mind, and naught will he hear but that he will have revenge on him." "What will he do?"
"That is new to me," Eadmund said, frowning; "but, as you know, my father and I have had little to say to each other of late." "Then you doubt him not?" I asked. "I would as soon doubt Edric himself," he said, "and him I trust as I would trust myself." "That is well," answered I. "For I feared that you also might have been doubtful of Olaf."
Many a time when the fury seemed like to come on him, Ingvar turns white and stares suddenly beyond all things, as though seeing somewhat beyond other men's ken, and the sweat runs cold from his forehead. Many a man has escaped him through this." "Surely Eadmund holds him back thus from more cruelty," I thought. And aloud I said: "What think you of the matter?"
But I must see the citizens through this siege, and then I will come to you at Rouen, and we will take counsel together again." He would bide no longer in England after this, for the doubt of him that Eadmund would not listen to was strong in the minds of others, and his presence was of little use. Only the London folk and Ulfkytel loved him, knowing him well, and holding that they owed him much.
Now, it was not Wulfnoth's way to give reasons thus for aught that he did, and I was surprised that he would do so to me. But I could look at things in his way if I put my own love for Eadmund aside, and I said: "I may not blame you, lord earl, maybe; but it is hard for me to see my friend take what I think the wrong side." "Think no ill of him. It is my doing," Wulfnoth said.
But here do I proclaim myself clear from all part in the slaying of Eadmund my brother, who, but for this man, might hereafter have taken all the kingdom when I died, according to our oaths. I suppose that no man will believe that I had nought to do with this murder, but I am clear thereof, both in thought or wish or deed.
Now came a time when the victory was ours, and it seemed that at last the strong hand had come. For men would follow Eadmund, and he had the power of making them fight as he would. Yet there was nothing that would keep our levies together. Had they done so we had surely conquered, but it was ever the same. They fought and dispersed, and all the work and loss was for nought.
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