There is profit to be made out of this business, if I am not mistaken." Then they brought my man's horse, which they had caught, and set me on it, making my feet fast under the girth.

The men who had fallen they hid in the bushes, and it troubled me more than aught to think that Wulf should lie among them.

My horse they dragged into a hollow, and piled snow over him.

Then they went swiftly down the hillside into the deep combe, leaving only the trampled and reddened snow to tell that there had been a fight.
I had a hope for a little while that the track they left would be enough for my men to follow if they hit on it, but there was little snow lying in the sheltered woodlands, and there the track was lost.

And these men scattered presently in all directions, so that trace of them was none.