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His son-in-law, Edric, notwithstanding his repeated treasons, retained such influence at court as to instil into the king jealousies of Sigefert and Morcar, two of the chief nobles of Mercia: Edric allured them into his house, where he murdered them; while Ethelred participated in the infamy of the action, by confiscating their estates and thrusting into a convent the widow of Sigefert.
In short, I dare not say all I know or suspect, for there can be little doubt who will reign in England now." All were silent. At length Edric continued, "none can deny that we have grounds for our suspicions." "Yes, I do deny it," said Elfwyn, "the more so when I remember who makes the accusation." "You do well to reproach me; I deserve it, I confess, and more than deserve it.
As well as Edric of Mercia she knew that the young Viking's vulnerable point was his longing for his own self-esteem, a craving so unreckoning in its fervor that should he have the guilty consciousness the traitor counted on rather than endure his own reproach for cowardice he would be equal to the wild brazenness of flinging the avowal in the teeth of his assembled court.
They proved it to him by many witnesses from their own country; but the chief testimony was that of the lady's superhuman beauty; and he dismissed them in admiration to their home. After many years of happiness Edric returned one evening late from hunting, and could not find his wife. He spent some time in vainly calling for her before she came.
As she had seen it from the gallery where the King's soldiers had hidden her, she saw again the great stone hail, enshrining a feasting-table around which a throng of nobles in their gorgeous dresses and their jewels and their diadems made a glittering halo. At the farther end, the King sat in his shining gilded chair. Just below her, was Edric of Mercia with Norman Leofwinesson beside him.
"Do you think I could not guess that you had no need to put your desire into words after you had shown Edric by your actions that your mind and his are one, after you had admitted by your bond with him that you hold the same curious belief about honor?" This time it was Randalin who clutched the English girl. "Oh!" she gasped.
"Impossible," said both the thanes; "they are barred, both of them heavily barred." "We can no longer assist our departed lord save by our prayers," said Edric. "God be thanked, he died friends with me. I shall value the remembrance of that kiss cf peace in St. Frideswide's so long as I live. And now I, once his foe, but his friend and avenger now, devote myself to hunt the murderer.
"What is all this, lord?" asked the leader, who stood with his back against the door still. "Edric the earl has another business on hand like that of Earls Sigeferth and Morcar," I said. Whereat the men growled fiercely. The goldsmith came in with the last of my men, and heard me say this, and now looked in the face of him whom I had slain.
"One thing we all must do," said Edric; "we must all help to find the murderer. The first step to that effect will be to note all present appearances. First, where is the weapon?" "Here," said Alfgar, extending it. "Why, Alfgar, it is your own dagger," said Elfwyn; "one which he gave you himself." Alfgar uttered a plaintive and pitiful cry. Edric possessed himself of the blood-stained weapon.
They say the Danes have gone into winter quarters on the Thames, and that all the neighbourhood pays them tribute. London has hitherto gallantly resisted their attacks. Edric Streorn has married the king's daughter, Edmund's half-sister, Elgitha. Is this a time to be "marrying and giving in marriage"? Edmund is frantic about it. February 1010. Woeful news.
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