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How had he knowledge of what was to be done?" "Whoever wrote the warning told him. It was a chance, however, that we did not come into the house." "There is some friend watching these traitors," said Herewald. "I did not know the thrall, but so often men from the hill who have followed us come here for the ale that they know will be going, that I thought nothing of a stranger more or less.
Thereafter I rode to Glastonbury, and told Herewald what I thought of the trouble that was surely brewing in the west; and he said that he also had some reason to think that along his borders men were getting more unruly, as if none tried to hinder them from giving cause of offence to us. "Well, if they will but keep quiet until this wedding is over it will be a comfort," he said.
But why choose my house for this deed?" I knew well enough, and it was plain when I minded the ealdorman that my vow was well known, and told, moreover, by Thorgils in Mara's hearing. This was a house where I should often be, and when Mara found out that Jago was a friend of Herewald of Glastonbury the rest was easy. "Well, I will send to Jago today, and find out what he knows.
He had but two men with him, and they were Saxons he had asked for from Herewald the ealdorman as he passed through Glastonbury in haste. So Ina took the letter, and opened it, and as he read it his face grew troubled, so that my fear that I had not yet heard the worst grew on me. Then he handed it to me without a word. "Gerent of the Britons, to Ina of Wessex.
Owen was next to Herewald, at one end of the high place, and at the other end was Sigebald, the Dorset ealdorman, under whom I had fought not so long ago. There were many others of high rank in the west to the right and left of these again at the long tables. Indeed, there was but one whom I missed in all the gathering. My old friend Aldhelm was gone.
There is Owen on the west to help you keep the peace in one way, and Herewald on the east to help you with the levies if need be. Fear not, therefore. It is in my mind that you will have an easier time here than any other I could have bethought me of, if I had tried." Then, as in duty bound, I knelt and kissed the hand of the king in token of homage, and he smiled at me contented.
Then I went to my place, and I glanced at Herewald, to see how he would take all this. Somewhat seemed to have amused him mightily, and his eyes brimmed with a jest as he looked at me.
In the coming week, after I had thus taken leave of Owen, my friend Herewald, the ealdorman, would have a hunting party before we all left him and Glastonbury for Winchester, and so it came to pass that on the appointed day a dozen of us rode with a train of men and hounds after us along the westward slopes of the Mendips in the direction of Cheddar, rousing the red deer from the warm woodlands of the combes where they love to hide.
Ina laughed, and even Owen smiled at the ready Norseman, but Herewald the ealdorman and I wondered at him, for he spoke as to equals, with no sort of fear of the king on him, which was not altogether the way of men who stood before Ina. Then said Owen quietly: "Friend, I think there is a favour I may ask you, rather.
"The Welsh are on us in all earnest, and tomorrow we must meet them somewhere yonder, where the sun is setting." He looked at me, and his face flushed redder and redder. "What, fighting in the air?" he said, with a sort of new interest. "War, nothing more or less," answered Herewald with a groan. "I am in luck for once," he said, leaping up.
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