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And Oswin said: "It shall be so, King Olaf, for it has already become our custom here. Now will we remember your name also." Ten years agone it is since Olaf sailed away from us and won Norway from the hand of Cnut. Now and then come Norsemen to me from him when they put into Colchester or Maldon, and ever do they bring gifts for Hertha and Olaf and Eadmund and Uldra, the children that are ours.
With that I set to work to gather the timber together from my own woods, that we might begin to build in the coming springtime, and I grew happy enough at that work, though I would that I worked for Uldra. Then came the news that Eadmund our king was dead, slain by Streone's men some say by the Earl's son, others by the king's own men, whom he bribed.
And when Spray the smith, who sat listening, with the other men in the hall below the high place, heard of that escape from the Danes, he said, without ceremony: "Master, well I knew that you would never be cast into prison." "That was a saying of yours, Spray," said I. "May the luck last." Then Uldra would tell the story of our journey in her way, and my name came pretty often into her tale.
Many questions there were when Bertric's men were known. There was a kindly-looking monk among his people, and I went to him, and brought him to the nuns where they and Uldra stood apart by themselves, while the two men were busy with their folk. "Pax vobiscum," he said; "you shall be welcome, my sisters, at our little nunnery for tonight.
She laughed softly and answered: "You could not hide that from her." Then I fell silent, for I liked not this subject at any time still less from Uldra. And I think that she saw that I was displeased at her questioning, for after a little while she said shyly: "I think that I have asked you too closely about your affairs. Forgive me women are anxious about such matters."
I had told him of Uldra, and presently he bade Ottar, who was with us, sing of Leavenheath fight, and so spoke quietly with her, sitting a little apart in the shadow of the hall, for he wished to tell her also that he owed her thanks.
But of this I was sure now, that if fortune went with me presently, I would surely seek Ailwin and tell him that I must be free, and so would seek Uldra, and ask her to share what I might have to give her, if a home should be mine again. I had thought much of this brave, quiet maiden while I was chafing at doing nought in Wulfnoth's farmstead, though I would not have stayed at Penhurst.
"Yet I think that I owe you somewhat," Relf said, "and now I am minded to try to show that I would thank you in deed, and not in word only." He paused, and Uldra looked at me as if asking if I could throw any light on this stranger's meaning. "Relf, the Thane of Penhurst, is he who gave me shelter and care when I was hurt in a fight and a flood last winter," I said.
For the terror of these years cannot pass from England yet while any man is alive who knew it. Now there was another pleasure for me, and that was to watch Uldra growing brighter and happier day by day. It was wonderful to me to see this, and with me she was ever frank and open, never wearying of speaking of our former journey and its troubles, for we could smile at them now.
Having been a fugitive for some time, Temudjin at length moved to the southeast, to the borders of Lake Kara, into which flows the river Uldra; there he was joined by some Kunkurats, and he once more moved on to the sacred Mongol lake, the Dalai Nur. Thence he indited the following pathetic letter to Wang Khan: "1.
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