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Updated: May 14, 2025
Mayhap you men deem that you have reason to blame a certain one; but I need surety. Now, I lay it on you that you search for the body of your king; and when it is found, bring him to me at Fernlea, where I will abide. It is not fitting that these walls should hold him again."
"Would he not let Sighard the thane come to Fernlea, where his daughter is?" "Truly, if you will. But it is safer for you to come to him. There Jefan will have all care for all of you until he may send you home.
"My son," he said, "it were better that you were out of this place. Neither you nor Erling nor myself will dare sleep in peace tonight if such deeds are still planned. Listen. Arm yourselves, and go on your search. Take your horses with you, and presently follow the archbishop to Fernlea for the night. It will be thought that you have fled also.
So presently they brought back the body to Fernlea, and its resting was ready in the little church which had come into the strange dream by the riverside. And I knew, as I watched by it all the rest of that night till the hour of prime, that this was what the vision foreboded. Now that I had Hilda safe with the archbishop, it mattered nothing to me if all the world knew that I was yet here.
I do not know if I should have learned what it all meant had I slept on." "What was it, my son?" said Selred. The king was silent for a little, musing. "It was a good dream, I think," he said. "I will tell you, and you shall judge. You mind the little wooden church which stands here in Fernlea town?
We must bide here till the men went away, or till it grew darker; for there was no need though they would hardly follow us to let them know who was with their quarry, or that she was anywhere but on their side of the water. We might find our way to Fernlea cut off. We took Hilda into the thicket, and crept back to see what happened, leaving the dry cloaks with her.
"His foes have slain a bridegroom, most cruelly," one of the men answered after a pause. "We do but bear him to Fernlea." "What bridegroom?" he asked, in a hushed voice. And then the pity of the thing came to him, and he wept silently. Presently he raised his head, dashing away the tears as he did so. "It is a many years since these eyes of mine have wept," he said.
And how long it seems since we came to Fernlea in the bright sunshine, deeming that all was to go well!" "Yet all is not so much amiss," said I, seeing that the fears of the day had hold of her. And so I told her of Erling's christening, and of what we saw in the church; for of this I had had no time to tell her before, save when Erling himself had been with us.
Nor, of course, could those who came, as they tried to follow us. We heard them plainly entering the wood as we came to the edge of it and passed out toward the river bank. "We must get back to the horses, and then ride to Fernlea and the archbishop," I said, under my breath. "Ay, if we can," Erling answered; "but that is more easily said than done." He pointed to the river and up it.
As the crow flies, Fernlea town was not more than five miles from the palace; but we wandered somewhat, no doubt, being nowise anxious to meet any men on the way, and also wishing to come into the town from any direction but that of the road from Sutton.
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