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"Nay, Redwald will tell me now," Egil said. "Does this lady speak truth?" "It is true," I answered. "Why should you hinder her going to the duke, her brother, who will seek her at your hands?" Now Emma had been still during these words, looking with hard and scornful eyes at all before her, but now she spoke: "Let the sail be set again that I may go on my way.
What passed within on his entrance they could not tell; how narrow their escape they knew not were not even certain it had been an escape at all. It was now determined that the interment should take place on the morrow, and the intelligence was communicated rapidly to all the tenantry. Hourly they expected the forces of Mercia to appear, and exact a heavy account from Redwald for his offences.
Then the dame spoke in her slow, soft voice. "What banner saw you? Say that much, Redwald." "The banner that flies from Pevensea walls the banner that bears a fighting warrior for its sign." "Ha!" said Wulfnoth; "was it well or ill with that banner?"
Vade retro, Sathanas, I will shake off the dust of my feet against thee," another arrow stuck in his frock "thou shalt share the fate of Sodom, yea of Gomorrha; in manus inimici trado te;" by this time his words were inaudible; and he departed, not having accomplished much good, but having nevertheless informed Redwald of two great facts the first, that Elfric's return was blazed abroad; the second, that his own identity was more than suspected.
Redwald attended them, and just before the boat left the bank he spoke a word of caution. "I fear," he said, in a low tone, "that all is not quite right. That old fox Dunstan is up to some trick; he has not really left town." "Perhaps he has a similar appointment tonight," said Edwy, sarcastically. "I should keep mine though he and all his monks from Glastonbury barred the way."
I have been this morning to Redwald, and he refuses permission for any one to leave the place, asserting that thus only can he assure your safety. Now, it is plain that if the place comes to be besieged you would be far safer in the priory or the old priests' house. Our own countrymen would not injure us." "He will not detain us by force?"
A pause, during which the company looked at each other, so strangely had the sound struck them, and yet they knew not why, save that it was an unlikely hour for such an occurrence. There was one only who knew what the message would probably be Redwald; and he had kept the secret purposely from the king.
Very strange the deserted place looked to me as I sat on my horse on the familiar green, and saw the river gleam across the gap where the church had been, and missed the houses that I had known so well. "Call aloud, Redwald," said Olaf. "It may be that your name will bring some from their hiding." So I called, and the empty street echoed back the words: "Ho, friends! I am Redwald, your thane.
"Not quite," he said; and then, overcoming his feelings by a vigorous effort, while no one save Redwald suspected the true cause, he continued: "There had been a great storm, and they had broken down the only bridge which existed for miles over a swollen river: we lost hours." "And yet, as your messengers told us, you arrived in time to see him leave the coast."
"Nevertheless," said Ottar, "Redwald has a sure token there that he overcame him," and he pointed to my sword. "It is my father's sword," I said. "It has come back to me, even as you said it would." "They have not said too much of sword Foe's Bane," Ottar answered. "For I have seen you use it and I think that Hneitir is hardly more handsome."
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