Lugur, who had been scanning his bulk, drew close.

He felt the giant muscles which Huldricksson accommodatingly flexed for him.
"But he shall meet Valdor and Tahola before he sees those kin of his," he laughed mockingly.

"And if he bests them--for reward--his wife and babe!" A shudder, quickly repressed, shook the seaman's frame.

The woman bent her supremely beautiful head.
"These two," she said, pointing to the Russian and to me, "seem to be men of learning.

They may be useful.