I did not want him to fall on you on the road." "What is the news ?" I asked.

"Have you heard aught ?" "The best, I think.

Gerent is hunting Tregoz, and Owen has swept up every outlaw from the Quantocks.

Our folk helped him.

Some of them told all they knew when they were taken." "Then," I said gladly, "Owen knows that I am safe." "Not so certainly," Thorgils said.