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Don't talk that way to me I don't want to hear any more of it." Hertha sat looking at him, that cast of dull hopelessness in her face again, the light dead in her eyes. "There are strange noises that I hear in the night," she said, woefully; "there is a dead child that never drew breath pressed against my heart." "You'd better go back to your wagon," he suggested, getting to his feet.
Now that word of common sense was the best that he could have spoken, for I was waxing angry at being thus played with, as I thought. But at that moment Olaf and Ottar came in with clang and ring of mail and sword, and so no more was said, and soon Ailwin rose to depart. But I followed him out, and asked him for the last time: "Will you not tell me where Hertha bides?" "No, my son not yet.
"Here we speak as if a child's thoughts were aught. Now comes into my mind such a plan as is in the old stories. You shall seek Hertha as Olaf's kinsman only as a kinsman who seeks for you, maybe, not letting her know who you are. Then may you try to win her love, if you will or if you cannot love her, you may so work on her mind that she will not love you, and then all is easy.
She knew nothing of the ways of wartime and of the troubles which must come to men who are weapon bearers, and I tried to tell her how I could by no means have sought Hertha, and how, had that been possible, and had I found her, I could hardly have brought her even to London in safety.
Wordsworth at his highest only approaches, Swinburne in Hertha halts at the portals of, the Upanishads. Now, what may this indicate?
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.
We feared that he had fallen into Danish hands, for it was hard to say where they were not. It seemed that we must perforce leave London without him. Yet I would stay till the last for his coming. Now I must leave England, and I have said little about myself. But when this duty was laid on me by the king, I thought more of my lost quest of Hertha than I had done of late.
So it came to pass that I had nought wherewith to blame myself in the days to come, and I taught myself to look on Sexberga as a pleasant friend only, though it was hard at first, to say the truth. And I think that her talk of Hertha, and her jesting at my unknown bride, as she would call her, helped me, for it kept me mindful.
Now Osgod the Thane had ridden away to the war with my father, and unless he had returned with Grinkel, Hertha was alone in the house with her old nurse and the farm servants. Most surely she would have been at Bures with us but for some spring-time sickness which was among the village children, and from which my mother sought to keep her free.
"A man never knows," Carlson replied, coming into the room. Hertha Carlson lingered just outside the door, as if repelled by the recollection of old sufferings there. Swan reached out, grasped her wrist, drew her roughly inside, pointed to a chair.
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