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As he said this Torarin ceased to smile, but put on an ignorant air and said: "I cannot see what you mean by that." "Well," said the skipper, "I once lay in the harbour of Bergen a whole month, and a contrary wind blew all that time, so that no ship could come out.
"Now you must tell us where you have found it, mistress," said another of the fishermen. "I found it rolling before me in the street," said Elsalill. "One of the murderers has surely dropped it there." "It may be as you say," said Torarin, "but what can we do in this matter? We cannot find the murderers by this alone, that you know they have walked in one of our streets."
When he came to himself again dawn was breaking and he saw that he was lying on the ground in the yard of Solberga parsonage. His horse stood beside him with the sledge, and Grim barked and howled over him. "It was all but a dream," said Torarin; "now I see that. The house is deserted and in ruin. I have seen neither Herr Arne nor any other.
Olof the groom, whom he saw standing alive and well beside him, he had seen a week before lying dead amongst the others with a great wound in his throat. Torarin took a firmer hold of the reins. He thought the best thing for him was to make off as soon as he could. But Olof the groom's hand still lay upon his shoulder, and the old fellow gave him no peace.
"To make that man merry is more than I or any other can do," thought Torarin. Again the skipper began of his own accord to ask a question. "These Scotsmen," he said, "are they honest folk?" "Is it you, maybe, that are to take them over to Scotland?" asked Torarin. "Well," said the skipper, "I have a cargo for Edinburgh, and one of them was here but now and asked me would I take them.
When he turned his head she stood motionless, and Sir Archie's own shadow fell upon her, dark and broad, and hid her. Sir Archie turned again at once and pursued his way, and again the maiden hurried forward and made as though she would whisper in his ear. But when Torarin saw this his terror was more than he could bear.
"You are not to go, Torarin," said Herr Arne, "until you have answered me once more whether none of the living can give us vengeance." "Not if all the men in Bohuslen and Norway came together to be revenged upon your murderers would they be able to find them," said Torarin. Then said Herr Arne: "If the living cannot help us, we must help ourselves."
And so great a concourse moved between Solberga church and Branehog that toward evening not an inch of snow could be seen that had not been trampled by men's feet. But late in the evening, when all had gone their ways, came Torarin the fish hawker driving along the road from Branehog to Solberga.
He walked quite boldly across the room to Herr Arne, asking himself whether the murder was not an evil dream and whether Herr Arne was not in truth alive. But as Torarin crossed the room, his eyes from old habit sought the four-post bed, beside which the great money chest used to stand.
He lay still most of the time, with his head sunk between his feet, and answered only by blinking to all his master said. But if his ear caught anything that displeased him, he stood up on the load, put his nose in the air, and howled worse than a wolf. "Now I must tell you, Grim, my dog," said Torarin, "that I have heard great news today.
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