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"Where is Hubba?" I asked, wondering. "He is not far from us. He will come when I need his help." "Then we need not meet," I said; "I am in the centre." Now we both returned to our places, and again Eadmund, after I had told him that we must fight, asked me to stand out. "For," said he, "you are in her father's place to Eadgyth."
I knew that my story must have come into this shape through some tales that the goldsmith had set about. "Hardly," said I; "but it is a long story. Maybe Eadmund the Saint had more to do with it than I know; but I saw him not." "Well then, Redwald, it seems unsafe for you to go near Streone "
The Danes would not leave their walls to follow the retreating English, though Eadmund halted just beyond bow shot, and waited as if to challenge them to fight in the open. Now by this time the tide was almost full, and the stream of the flood was slackening. And it seemed as if one might easily scale the bulwarks of the great low-timbered bridge from the foredeck of a ship.
"You cannot see the Atheling, thane," he said. "It is as much as my life is worth to disturb him." "I will do it myself, then," I said. "Take me into the house." "What is amiss?" he asked, hesitating. "Is the king dead?" "Nay, worse than that," I answered shortly, and the officer stared at me in horror. "Oh, fool!" I said; "Cnut is landed, and it is Eadmund only who can save our land.
He was at once summoned on the king's return. "Saddle your horse," said Eadmund, "and ride with me." The royal train swept over the marshes to his home; and the king, bestowing on him the kiss of peace, seated him in the abbot's chair as Abbot of Glastonbury. Dunstan became one of Eadmund's councillors, and his hand was seen in the settlement of the north.
Then Cnut recalled the ships and host from London, and they raised the siege, and went into the Orwell, and once again began to march across the heart of our land. This fourth levy that Eadmund the king had made was the best that he had had.
Olaf and the Kentish levies had fought and had been driven back, and now day by day we looked to see Cnut's armies before London, and also for the coming of Eadmund with his men. But neither came, for the Mercian levies would not fight unless the king himself headed them, and Cnut passed through Surrey into Wessex and none could withstand him. Aye, they fought him.
"Aye, my son," answered Eadmund; "nor can I read it; though I think I shall do so hereafter. Nevertheless it comes into my mind that the dream warns me that my time is short. Lie down again, my son. Let us sleep in peace while we may." But in the morning the dream had, as it seemed, passed from the mind of Eadmund, for he was very cheerful, as was his wont, and said naught of it.
And Oswin said: "It shall be so, King Olaf, for it has already become our custom here. Now will we remember your name also." Ten years agone it is since Olaf sailed away from us and won Norway from the hand of Cnut. Now and then come Norsemen to me from him when they put into Colchester or Maldon, and ever do they bring gifts for Hertha and Olaf and Eadmund and Uldra, the children that are ours.
"Why does he not go?" said Olaf impatiently. "Here is time lost when a sudden blow would win all." "Because he is Ethelred the Unredy," answered Eadmund shortly, for he was very angry at the delay.
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