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He knew him, and I have heard that he came here to warn Hodulf that his time was come." Hodulf's face grew whiter when he heard that; but it was what he needed, as some sort of excuse to let loose his passion. White and shaking with wrath and fear, he rose up and he cried, "Murdered is Griffin! Ho, warriors, let not these go forth!" Whereon the old chief lifted his voice also, "Ho, Gunnar's men!
There is nothing to tell of what happened at this feast, for Sigurd asked no questions of us but the most common ones of sea, and wind, and voyage, and never a word that would have been hard for Havelok to answer in this company, where men of Hodulf's might well be present. Withelm noticed this, and said that no doubt it was done purposely, and he thought much of it.
And all men know that there was no love lost between him and me." "Hodulf's man," said I; "how long has he been here, and is he a Norseman?" For I knew him. He was the man who had spoken to me at the boat side when we had to fly one, therefore, who knew all of the secret of Havelok. "Ay, one of the Norsemen who came here with the king at the first, and is almost the last left of that crew.
"Gunnar's son," said one old chief: "but were he only the son of Grim, for those twain would I die." So the warriors crept back to the hall silently as they had come; and now they went out to their men and told them that all doubt had gone, and along the road that led to Hodulf's town the jarl sent mounted men to watch for his coming.
Then Hodulf's men were on Havelok, but not before Raven was at his back, and over Hodulf there was a struggle in which Havelok was in peril for a short time before we closed round him.
So there was no man in all the host who was not content; and that was the second king-making of Havelok, as it were, for now there was no man against him. The hosts were disbanded then and there, and we went that day to Hodulf's town, and took possession of all that had been in his hands.
After that the goods might be an excuse for going far and wide through the villages to let men know who had come, without rousing Hodulf's fears. And as we thought of all this on the voyage, Goldberga remembered that it was likely that Sigurd would know again the ring that had been the queen's, and she said that it had better be shown him at once, that he might begin to suspect who his guest was.
I had brought him down to my mother from the deck, and had left him with her, hoping that he did not know what had happened; but now he was in a high fever, and sorely ill. Perhaps he would have been so in any case, after the long days of Hodulf's cruelty, but he had borne them well. A child is apt, however, to give up, as it were, suddenly.
But Sigurd looked round on the people, and scanned them for a long time, and at last he said, in a hush that fell when he began to speak, "Men who mind the old days, look at the man whom you have sought to kill, and say if there is that about him which will tell you why Hodulf's men have set you on him thus."
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