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There was no more then to be said. All the while Ulfkytel had watched my face and Beorn's, and now he said: "The arrow condemns Wulfric, but any man might pick up a good arrow that he had lost. And the sword condemns Beorn, but there are many ways in which it might be bloodstained in that affair.
"How came he into the forest?" asked Hubba, for he saw that there was more than he knew yet under Beorn's utter terror. "Let me tell you that story from end to end," I answered. And he nodded, so that I did so, from the time when I left the jarl until Ulfkytel sentenced us, giving all the words of the witnesses as nearly as I could. Then I said that I would leave them to judge, for I could not.
The half-breed did not reply, but crouched and pointed with his hand. Granger, turning his head and following the direction indicated, looked towards the triangle of uncovered window-pane, and there saw the face of a man, gazing hungrily in upon him yet, not upon him, but upon the nugget which lay sparkling by Beorn's side upon the shelf.
The boat was one and the same which carried Beorn, Spurling, and himself. He promised himself that, by and by, as in the case of Peggy, he would break through Beorn's silence, get to know the man, plunge deep down till he held his heart in his hand.
He wondered whether Beorn's treatment of Spurling, and the fact that he had shown him to him on the earliest occasion, was meant as a threat to himself; or had the disclosures which he had made in his delirium given him the impression that he also was entirely Spurling's enemy. The bearing of Eyelids and of Peggy led him to believe that the latter supposition was correct.
Wulf occasionally expressed his surprise to his companion that no word was said as to their return to England, but Beorn's answer always silenced him. "The earl himself seems well satisfied, Wulf. Why should you be more anxious for him than he is for himself?"
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