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This he has told to Herstan and others, but no further discovery has ensued. But another important matter has claimed our attention. The king left on Monday without making any efforts to profit by the Etheling's discovery at Carisbrooke; but we could not in conscience let the matter rest.
That they should think I, or any one else than Edric, could have done such a deed, such an evil deed!" Elfwyn and Herstan both left the scene, the more convinced of Alfgar's innocence, but yet the more puzzled to convey their impression to others. Meanwhile the arrangements for Edmund's burial were made.
Offa, 940. * Oswald, 937. + Ragnar, 959. * Ella, 959. + Elfric, 960. + Alfred, 998, m. Alftrude. o Elfric, 975. o Elfwyn, 1036, m. Hilda. # Bertric, 1006. # Ethelgiva, 1064, m. Alfgar. @ Edmund, 1066, m. Winifred. Wilfred, 1122. Edith, 1124, m. Herstan. # Winifred, 1067. + Edgitha, 990. vii This Herstan figures largely in "Alfgar the Dane."
He was led to the choir, and placed where Edmund had knelt by Edric's side some days previously. Edric saw him, and exchanged glances, after which the ealdorman looked uneasy. On the other side knelt the prisoner, with Elfwyn and Herstan on either side, and his colour heightened. Well it might. He had last seen that figure when he fought by Edmund's side at Penn. But it was not that meeting.
All that had passed since they last met must have rushed into their minds. Then Herstan, the Lady Bertha, Hermann, Ostryth, and Alfreda, all had their turn. "Pardon me, prince," said I, when I introduced Edmund; "pardon brothers who scarcely expected to meet again. Elfwyn, let me introduce the Etheling Edmund as your guest."
"They have retired," said Herstan, wiping the sweat from his brow and the blood from his axe. "Ay," said Edmund, "they will not now take the place by assault they are not more than two to one, considering the losses they have sustained. They have lost twice as many as we. If we were a little stronger I would head a sally. "Ah! what was that?"
We think it best not to let his father or Edric know where he is, for we know how his death would rejoice the latter, and the wish is often father to the action. A little would turn the scale now. Herstan has gone into Dorchester again to inquire about Alfgar, and to ascertain whether any action has been taken consequent upon Edmund's intelligence from Carisbrooke. Saturday. Vigil of St.
Edmund, the king, is slain!" roused the household Elfwyn, Herstan, Hermann, the ladies, agitated beyond measure; the household guard; and, last of all, Edric. They beheld Alfgar in his night dress, all bloody, holding a dagger in his hand, and with his face blanched to a death-like paleness, uttering cry upon cry. "Help! Edmund, the king, is slain!" But doubtless this was fancy.
They hesitated, but for one moment in speechless surprise, then rushed forward. "Alfgar!" cried the Prince. "My son!" cried Father Cuthbert, "whence hast thou come? dost thou yet live?" "Father; Prince; I live to warn you the Danes, the Danes!" and he sank fainting into the arms of Herstan. "Surely he raves," said they all. The porter here ventured to speak.
So thither flocked the young and the old: the wood rangers and hunters from the forests of Newenham, where Herstan had right of wood cutting; the men who wove baskets and hurdles of osier work from the river banks; the theows who cultivated the home farm; the ceorls who rented a hide of land here and a hide there all, the grandfather and the grandson, accepted the invitation to feast.
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