But the knave would beguile Loki.

Never a word did I hear of any trouble, but he came and spoke to me as I sat with your men yonder, and paid me his passage money, and said he had asked for a guard for the ship as he wanted to be away with the sick man.

Also he said he would borrow the boat for his easier passage ashore.

I supposed she was smashed in the gale, as she came not back, and Howel paid me for her when I grumbled." "I wonder he went near you," I said.
"Therein was craft.

If he had not paid passage I would have let every shipmaster beware of him, and he would have fared ill.