26/29 There will be no more welcome guest." "Let me be of some use, rather," Owen answered. "If I bide with you, Thane, and I thank you for the offer, let it be as I have bided elsewhere from time to time--as one of the household, not as an idle guest, if it were but to help the woodmen in the forest." "Why, that will be well. I need a forester, and it is plain that you are a master of woodcraft. Yet I must tell you one thing fairly, and that is, that I am what you would call a heathen. |