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One might fancy them worshippers of Hertha, or the Earth: for they dig and affectionately work continually in her bosom; or else, shut up in private Oratories, meditate and manipulate the substances derived from her; seldom looking up towards the Heavenly Luminaries, and then with comparative indifference.
"She and the lady Hertha took boat it was but three days after you had gone. All the men had fled as she bade them, but her brother came and helped her with the boat. They went into the mere, and that was the last we saw of them." Now I remembered to have heard of Gunnhild's brother, but I had never seen him. "Where does her brother live?" I asked. "I know not.
"These folk will side with Swein presently, when they find that he is the stronger, and then the old kinship will wake in them, and the Wessex king will be nought to their minds. Then will be peace here, for the Danes will sweep on to Mercia and London. Do you go to Ethelred the Unredy and I abiding here shall be the safer in the end, and Hertha with me." "But peace has not come yet" I said.
Some of his men would come presently and sleep across the doorway, but the evening was young yet. "You seem as if you had heard somewhat pleasant," Olaf said when I came in. I suppose that my certainty of finding Gunnhild and Hertha pleased me well enough to make my face bright.
"My king," I whispered, "what if Gunnhild and Hertha are indeed in the woods yonder? These Danes will have found them." The king was silent for a moment, for the fear that my guess as to their hiding place might be right came to him also before he gave the matter thought. "It is not likely. The thought of danger makes it seem possible again," he said.
It was endless unceasing I would have none go through the like. I know not now how we bore it. So I had forgotten Hertha, whether there is blame to me or not. But now, as I say, with the sudden slackening of warfare came to me the longing for rest. I would fain find my home again and my playmate, and all else that belonged to the past.
I thought that I had not deserved so much. And of this I was sure, that had not the sisters' dress kept me far from Uldra, I had forgotten Hertha in her company. Then thought I that there was no reason why I should remember Hertha any longer. And next, that it were better that I should think of no maiden at all, at this time.
But she was not there, and Reid was waiting for somebody to come. Swan Carlson or his wife, it must be, and what business they had before them in this unrighteous hour Mackenzie could not imagine. But plainly it had nothing to do with Joan. Mackenzie's thoughts reverted to the night he came to that cabin among the trees, guided thither by the plaintive melody of Hertha Carlson's song.
And then I saw that surely this was Hertha coming to meet me as in the old days when I had waited for her here Hertha grown older, and changed; but yet as I saw her here in the old place one could not but know her, and half I cried out her name, and then stayed with my heart beating fast.
"By your face, Redwald," she said; "you were but a boy two days agone, now you have a man's work on your hands, and you will do it. Who bade you ride here?" "No one," I said, wondering, "needs must that I should come." "That is as I thought," she said; "but we cannot fly." "Why not?" "Because the sickness that your mother feared is on Hertha, and she cannot go."
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