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At last he stood upright and came again to the doorway, trying to speak in his old way. "Here have you come in good time, comrades. Where are the Jomsburgers?" "Gone," said Thormod, curtly. "Where were you, King?" Now Ingvar heeded me not, but answered Thormod. "With Jarl Swend beating off more of this crew. Then I saw the ship leave, and I knew where she would go.
"Let us go at once on this tide," I said, starting up. "Not so fast now, comrade," laughed Thormod. "Would you come again half starved, as last time, into the lady's presence?" Then I called Cyneward, but when he rose up and came to us, Thormod stared at him, crying: "You here, Raud! I thought you were with Ingvar." "Aye, Thormod, I am here at least Cyneward, who was Raud, is with Wulfric." "Ho!
"Now, therefore," said Hubba, "you yourself shall question Beorn, for there are things you want to know from him. And he will answer you truly enough." "After that you shall slay him, if you will," said Ingvar, in his stern voice, "I wonder you did not do so in the boat. Better for him if you had." "I wonder not," said Hubba. "The man is fit for naught; I could not lay hand on such a cur."
Then the maiden turned pale, and wrung her hands, looking at Ingvar, who would not meet her eyes; and then she went and laid her hands on his mighty arm, crying: "Not that, my brother; not that!" "Why not?" he asked; but he did not shake off her little hands. "Because Father would not have men so treated, however ill they had done." "Aye, brother; the girl is right," said Hubba.
"By Baldur, here is a wedding! Gold and jewels to be had for the taking!" But my horse was across the road, and my axe was in the way, and I cried to Ingvar as the men began to handle their weapons. "Mercy, Jarl Ingvar! This is my sister's wedding that Eadgyth of whom your own sister would ever ask so much." "Hold!" roared the chief, and his men stayed, wondering.
Many men scowled at me as I passed, and more than one cried out on me. But Halfden and Thormod and Hubba, and more than were angry, seemed glad that this was all the harm that came to me just now. And Ingvar leaned back in his great chair and did not look at me, though his face was dark.
"Fain would I have been your friend," he said, "but pride would not let me. Yet Eadgyth your sister and Egfrid called me so, and maybe that one deed of ruth may help me. Now go, lest I become weak again. Lonely shall I be, for you take all that I hold dear but even that is well." So he turned from me, and I went out without a word, for he was Ingvar.
Then he told me that ever as he began to sleep he saw Osritha his sister, and she was pale and wrung her hands, saying: 'Now am I alone, and there is none to help me, for Halfden and Wulfric are far away, and I fear Ingvar and his moods'. Then said I, 'That is true enough.
But I would speak to you alone." "Tell me," said Ingvar shortly; "came my father to your shores in yon boat alive?" "Aye," I answered. "And he died thereafter?" "He died, Jarl," I said; and I said it sadly. Then said Hubba: "Almost had I a hope that he yet lived, as you live. But it was a poor hope. We have held him as dead for many a long day."
Yet I was glad, for of all things I feared that Ingvar might be our master in the end, and this seemed to say that it was none so certain. More men came in after that, hastening the going to the front of those who would, for not all the Danes among us would stir from their new homes, saying that they had done their part, and knowing that what they left others might take.
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