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Poor Hertha Carlson was denied both remedies; she would break in a little while now, and run mad over the hills, her beautiful hair streaming in the wind. And Reid had it; already it had struck deep into his soul, turning him morose, wickedly vindictive, making him hungry with an unholy ambition to slay. Joan must have suffered from the same disorder.
"Then you may find your Hertha yet," the lady said at last; and as she spoke Sexberga, of whom my mind was full, came into the hall. "You speak sadly together," she said, looking from one to the other, and noting that her mother's wheel was idle. "It is no happy tale that our friend has told me," the lady said, and so told her all that she had learned from me.
That is all you may know. But maybe it will be enough to guide you someday." I could not understand what she meant; nor would she tell me more. Only she said that all would be safe, and that I need fear nothing either for Hertha or for herself. "My forbears were safe in that place to which I go," she said; "and I alone know where it is.
Now both Olaf and Ottar knew of my wish to search for Hertha, and who she was, for I had told them as we sailed to Maldon on the way to my own country again, and they were eager to help me to take her from hiding into what we thought would be greater safety. So when the king said this, at first I thought of saying only that I had surely found out where she was hidden.
In November, 1894, Captain Evensen in the Hertha succeeded in approaching nearer to Alexander I. Land than either Bellingshausen or Biscoe. But the search for whales claimed his attention, and he considered it his duty to devote himself to that before anything else.
Surely she would have spoken otherwise at the sound of his voice. Hertha Carlson rose to her hands and knees, where she remained a spell like a creeping child, almost at Mackenzie's feet. Reid lay where he had sunk down, pitched forward in front of the closed door. "I'll open it, then," said Swan in the same glowing eagerness. "It'll be a game whatever I find I'll keep!" "Don't touch it!"
"The levy is broken, and the Danes are on the way to Colchester. My mother flies to London, and you and Hertha must do likewise." "So your father and hers are slain," she said, looking fixedly at me, and standing very still. "How know you that?" I asked sharply, for I had told the steward nothing.
This German paganism was eminently fanciful it peopled the earth, air and sea with supernatural beings the rivers had their Undines, the caverns their Gnomes, the woods their Sprites, and the ocean its Nixes. Besides these, there were a host of mythological figures the Walkyres or bridal maidens, the river maids; and the white women, Hertha and Frigga.
Now I was ready to weep, but that would be of no use. "Is there danger to her?" I said, and I could not keep my voice from shaking, for Hertha was all the sister I had, and she in time would be nearer than that to me. "None," answered the dame, "save she runs risk of chill. For she has been fevered for a while." "Which is most to be feared," said I, "chill, or risk of Danish cruelty?"
In every age, and among all people from the Parsee devotees and the Gosains of India to the Pantheism of Bruno, Spinoza, and New England's "Illuminati" nature has been apotheosized; and the heart of the blacksmith's untutored darling stirred with the same emotions of awe and adoration which thrilled the worshipers of Hertha, when the veiled chariot stood in Helgeland, and which made the groves and grottoes of Phrygia sacred to Dindymene.
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