Nona laughed at him and clapped her hands with glee, and I must laugh also.
"By Baldur," he gasped, "if it is not Oswald, in the flesh! What witchcraft brought you here?
To my certain knowledge there is no ship but mine afloat now in the Severn Sea." "Why, then, I crossed with you, friend," I said.
"That you did not--" he began, but stopped short.
"Thorgils, Thorgils--the sick man!" cried Nona.
"Oh!" said Thorgils, "can you have been Evan's charge ?" "Ay.

Mind you that it was your own word that there might be danger from the friends of Morgan ?" Then I told him all, and he heard with growls and head shakings, which but for the presence of the lady might have been hard sayings concerning my captors.
But when I ended he said: "If ever I catch the said Evan there will be a reckoning.

All the worse it will be for him that for these five years past I have known him, and deemed him a decent and trustworthy man, for a Welsh trader.

I have fetched him back and forth with his goods twice or thrice a year for all that time, and now I suppose he has made me a carrier of stolen wares! Plague on him.

I mind me now that betimes I have thought he dealt in cast-off garments somewhat, but that was not my affair.